Question about DAG

[Mooshoepork]

Gawd, I am so tired of hearing You complain....
Why don't You just stick a dagger thru Don's/Dag's
heart and be done.

(at some point doing your difficulties I offered in this thread
to talk to Don, asking for your real name and city You live in, but You never responded, preferred always to complain, so I got bored with your posts)

Thankfully You will not use him anymore...
Don has always done excellent work for me since 2008 and I consider him a friend.

Me: Has awful experience spanning almost a year, costing a significant amount of money with zero communication, lost half a camera in the process and the camera is still broken.

You: Why are you complaining?

I’m not sure why this personally offends you. I don’t care if you’re bored. I don’t care if Don did good work for you in 1948.

Sorry, it isn’t good enough

 

[Ororaro]

I'm sort of on the verge of giving up on older Leicas. I have a M2 with DAG that I've more or less decided to just forget the existence of, since he doesn't respond to email, so that if I get it back some day it'll be a happy surprise. I just got a IIIf back from YYe with a messed up shutter curtain and wrong speeds. I know both guys are capable of excellent work but there's so much demand now that it's just kind of crazy. Meanwhile I sent out a Retina IIa to Paul Barden for a quite complex repair and turnaround is a week.

work on barnacks is easy-ish. There is documentation on the net. A Leica service manual is also easy to find.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Agree about the Barnacks being easy-ish, I have not done curtain replacements. I send them to Youxin for that.

https://learncamerarepair.com/productlist.php?category=2&secondary=27

If you want to learn repair- the Fed and Zorki cameras are cheap, and good to learn on. Same with the Kiev.

You can download the manuals, including M2 and M3 repair manuals. The M2 manual is 160 pages.

The Nikon RF's are easier to work on.

 

[Coldkennels]

Anyone know of a young camera repair person?

There's a guy here in the UK called Pierro who set up as PPP Cameras. He's a very approachable guy, and I didn't realise until after I sent him a Leotax for basic service just how young he was - I think he's in his mid-20s.

Incidentally he returned my Leotax with the wrong top plate (he installed the one from the "parts" Leotax he purchased to strip down to fix mine), but he was very apologetic and has taken it back to swap it over. I'll report back when it returns.

Agree about the Barnacks being easy-ish, I have not done curtain replacements. I send them to Youxin for that.

That was the one thing Pierro wouldn't do - said he wasn't comfortable trying to repair the cracked shutter in my IIIg. Apparently he's not confident that he's got the technique down right yet, and I appreciated his honesty. Rather that than he give it a go and botch the job.

 

[Bill Blackwell]

I've used DAG since 2002. He's polite and has always been very responsive.

If your repair sits beyond 90-120 days - contact him and I think you'll find he'll gladly get to it in short order. If he doesn't respond to your email, try this: pick up the phone and call him (Tuesday thru Friday). If he makes a mistake - which he has done on occasion (he's a human being) - he'll happily correct it if he can.

As busy as he is I'm not sure what else you can ask for.

 

[mpaniagua]

I've used DAG since 2002. He's polite and has always been very responsive.

If your repair sits beyond 90-120 days - contact him and I think you'll find he'll gladly get to it in short order. If he doesn't respond to your email, try this: pick up the phone and call him (Tuesday thru Friday). If he makes a mistake - which he has done on occasion (he's a human being) - he'll happily correct it if he can.

As busy as he is I'm not sure what else you can ask for.

Thats a wise advice. Once he fixed a Summilux 35mm 1.4 and he told he spend around 2:30-3hrs from his business time sorting through emails so no wonder is easier to get him through the phone.

Also, like Bill said, he is human so don't expect miracles on equipment. He will do the best he can but sometimes equipment is damaged beyond repair (haze that can't be removed, fungus marks, etc.).

Marcelo

 

[Mooshoepork]

Well my m6 emerged from repair with a new purple front curtain leak so I’m cutting my losses and getting an MP I think