[Leica] Bizarre problem with my m6

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

For repair go with Don Goldberg - when I lived in Chicago I had bad 
experiences with Midwest Camera Repair working on my IIIc. They had it twice 
and never got at the bug that Don fixed.


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Tom Irving <irving@iit.edu> wrote:

> From: Tom Irving <irving@iit.edu>
> Subject: [Leica] Bizarre problem with my m6
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 11:35 AM
> I'm new to the list. I've been using my m3 for some
> years and I recently bought a (1984 vintage) M6 classic
> (non-TTL). It clearly hadn't been used much since it
> looked brand new but had some corrosion in the battery 
> compartment cover.  Understandably the meter has been
> flakey. Sometimes would work and sometimes not. I cleaned up
> the cover a little more vigorously and now I have a
> situation when there is no film in the camera, the meter
> works fine. When I put film in the camera, no lights (or
> will occasionally work). I've gone back and forth
> between film, not film about 4 times now and this has been
> consistent.  This baffles me. On another note has anyone in
> the list had positive experiences with Leica repair people
> in the Chicago area?
> 
> -- Thanks,
> Tom Irving
> Professor of Biology and Physics,
> Director Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT)
> Director Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and
> Instrumentation (CSRRI) Dept. BCPS, Illinois Institute of
> Technology
> 3101 S. Dearborn, Chicago IL. 60616, USA
> (312) 567-3489 FAX: (312)567-3494
> email:irving@iit.edu
> 
> 
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