Resilvering rangefinder patch

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Anyone out there ever get the rangefinder patch re-silvered? If so, can you recommend the person who did it and did it seem to restore a like-new brightness to the rangefinder? I have and M3 and an M2 that are getting dimmer and dimmer and have fine lines in the patches. I know if I send them into Leica I end up with M4 finders in them--not so bad in the M2 but I want to keep the M3 as is. Thanks if you can help.

-- Charles (c.mason@uaf.edu), May 13, 2002

Answers

Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/10

-- Kelly Flanigan (zorki3c@netscape.net), May 13, 2002.

As Kelly has pointed out, a good cleaning is the first, and usually the only, step you need to take. The only people still resilvering and recementing M finders (that I know of) is:

http:// www.angelfire.com/biz/Leica/page8.html

-- John Collier (jbcollier@shaw.ca), May 13, 2002.


thanks much Kelly and John!

-- Charles (c.mason@uaf.edu), May 13, 2002.

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