Replacement eyepiece for M6

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I recently acquired nice 10-years-old M6 "Classic". It's rubber eyecup is rather worn out and metal shows through. Also rubber leaves smudges on my glasses which gets annoying. I was looking for replacement eyepiece at Internet stores (B&H, Adorama, etc.) but I can only see diopter correction eyepieces, but no "standard" one.

Can you point me in right direction?

-- Alexander Grekhov (grekhov@wgukraine.com), March 15, 2001

Answers

Most likely you should just order it from Leica. I think there's some ordering info in a similar thread.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), March 15, 2001.

You can get it from Leica, but I would strongly recommend sending the camera for replacement either to them or to an independent Leica repair person. The eyepiece is on (or at least should be) very tight and requires a special tool to unscrew it and install the new one. True you could take the old one off with pliers and put the new one one finger-tight, but that's not how it's supposed to be. www.microtools.com sells the ring wrench made for the eyepiece, but since you're only going to use it once, it's probably not worth the cost. BTW, last I heard the eyepiece was about $70 US.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), March 16, 2001.

Alex, have you seen this? Or you could cut one out from one of those self-adhesive rubber paddings for chair legs, which was what I did for my M4-P.

-- H (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), March 20, 2001.

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