Button Rewind Replacement?

[funkaoshi]

The button on my button-rewind M2 fell off somewhere in Australia. (Damn it!) I'm talking about the button you depress so you can rewind the film. I need to buy a replacement. Is there some giant stock of 1959 buttons out there? (Is there anyone in Toronto that would sell a replacements?) Cheers.

 

[topoxforddoc]

The button has fallen off as it probably wasn't re-attached properly after a CLA. There's apparently a special tool which helps screw it in properly. That's what Peter Grisalfi at CRR (a well known UK Leica repairer) told me when the button on my 1958 M2 fell off. Apparently it's an easy fix, but you'll need to find someone to do it.

Charlie

 

[funkaoshi]

It looks like you can just screw it in, but yeah, it was always loose on mine. It had popped out once before but I noticed right away.

 

[Tom A]

Just check with Kinderman in Toronto. Gerry Smith there knows all that is worth knowing about old M's. You might want to consider replacing it with a lever rewind instead as they are less prone to falling off.

 

[dlove5]

I am curious about this as well. What pieces behind the button rewind need to be replaced? If I recall correctly, there is a connecting shaft/linkage behind it. It would seem to me that at least some of that needs to be replaced as well.

 

[Nokton48]

I was in the middle of photographing a long list of illustrative photographs for a middle-school text book, when my early M2 rewind mech dropped to the floor, along with the mounting screw. I screwed it back in with my thumbnail, and kept right on shooting with that body. The Art Director never even noticed. Tightened it with a jewelers screwdriver, when I got home. No fogged frames, or anything, stuff like this is why I have such an affinity for the M2.

My next one will have probably a lever. Good to have a choice.