Leica LTM Help with mirror needed

[payasam]

I need a mirror for my IIIc. It can be made in Goteborg or Auckland or Kyoto for all I care, provided that it is 8mm by 10mm and 1mm thick, 50:50 reflectance and transmission, and without gold, which turns things blue. I know that a mirror of this kind can be salvaged from an otherwise dead camera with a coincidence range-finder, but where will I find such a corpse? I know also that Edmund sell 50mm square pieces, but what would I do with so much, assuming that I can cut a bit to size?

What I need is the address of a place or person from which or whom I can get the thing, all ready to be put in. Seeing that Oleg Khalyavin was well spoken of here and elsewhere, I wrote to him twice: but no answer came.

 

[Oleg]

What I need is the address of a place or person from which or whom I can get the thing, all ready to be put in. Seeing that Oleg Khalyavin was well spoken of here and elsewhere, I wrote to him twice: but no answer came.

Hmmm... I got no any emails about mirrors.... Sad to say, but last time lot of emails losts... Looks like ISP try to kill spam, but kill good emails instead huge stream of real spam
About mirrors - I cut needed size from big mirror found on http://scientificsonline.com/
see item number 3043359

 

[payasam]

My ISP does that too, Oleg, and most annoying it is; but at last we are in touch. I've just answered your second e-mail message, and this thread is effectively dead.

Payasam alias MD

 

[bob cole]

Help with mirror needed

First, this is the web site for the privately operated Leica Historical Society of America...It lists several leading repair places:

http://www.lhsa.org/repair.html


I suggest these:

Sherry Krauter in New York state...Krauter@warwick.net

and


Don Goldberg in Wisconsin...dagcamera@chorus.net


I'm surprised no one else came forward...there must be other suppliers...Maybe Microtools?

 

[John Shriver]

You can cut the Edmund one to size. Or, take it to a place that sells glass, for a very modest price they should be glad to dice it up into 8x10mm bits.

Cameraquest's repair service advertises that they'll replace LTM mirrors, so they must have inventory. I don't know if they'll sell parts, but Steve is known to be a nice guy.

 

[payasam]

Thanks, Bob. Sherry K and Don G are names which are to be seen whenever the matter of fixing a Leica comes up. I don't know if the first sells parts. The second does, but a genuine Leitz mirror might be unreasonably pricey when a no-name one can do the same job. John, thanks. I'm in touch with Oleg (see post 3 above). He cuts up the Edmund product (post 2) of which you write, and I should soon get the bit of mirror from him, besides a couple of other things.