[Leica] Report of M8 Base Failure

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Rei,

I'm not sure that one or even two failures constitutes a design flaw.  I 
would lean toward a bad casting at this point.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>: 
-------------- 


> that's kind of horrifying to see the metal housing of the m8 
> fail so catastrophically. i guess the design is faulty; 
> the front-back split effectively means that the baseplate 
> sort of hooks into a lower corner of the front piece. a 
> one-peice design would not fail in this manner. 
> 
> it's hard to imagine there was much stress on a tripod--the 
> lens it was mounting was only a 50 lux, rather than 
> a heavy noctilux or 75 lux. 
> 
> at least the lens didn't look like it was damaged in the fall 
> 
> -rei 
> 
> On May23 19:00, Robert D. Baron wrote: 
> > This report on the LUF regarding failure of the base of an M8 is perhaps 
> > of some concern: 
> > 
> > 
> http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/25121-base-plate-failur
>  
> e.html 
> > 
> > or 
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/2m9kdx 
> > 
> > I am not a metallurgist nor do I play one on tv. I have no idea if this 
> > is a rare event or something to fret over. 
> > 
> > I looked at my own base and it looks fine (solid, it appears) but what 
> > do I know? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --Bob 
> > 
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> -- 
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com 
> Ridgewood, New Jersey 
> 
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