Strange Leica III

[hamradio]

Worse were old Hondas which seemed to have case screws made of some sort of cheese, with an instantly-strippable Philips head. They were coated with some sort of alloy that had a great affinity for bonding with aluminum cases. Fortunately old Britbikes possess an automatic external lubrication system which helps a great deal in preventing stuck bolts.

The trick to properly removing those awful phillips-head bolts stuck with dissimilar metal corrosion is a $9 impact screwdriver. 🙂

 

[john neal]

The trick to properly removing those awful phillips-head bolts stuck with dissimilar metal corrosion is a $9 impact screwdriver. 🙂

Not on my Leica, you don't 😱

(OK, I know that's a bike reference, but the thought makes me shudder) I had a Royal Oilfield too - Model G hardtail, lovel for a Sunday afternoon if you could get it to start. I never did fix the magneto....

Incidentally, I think Mr Zhou still does low cost spanners like the Microtools ones - I have a bag full in useful sizes that i bought a couple of years ago.

 

[Jacques M.]

Hello,

About the s/n, this one cannot be original: it's a II(D)'s dating of 1932.
III(F) were made from 1933. And the factory upgraded the II(D) when asked without changing the s/n: it was a common operation, though expensive... It is certainly what happened to yours.

Jacques.
PS: I own a BMW R60/5 which doesn't need anything!

 

[rfaspen]

I long for the days Spavinaw spoke of. In the U.S. all but the most expensive (and hard to find) tools are made in China. No offense against my Chinese friends, but those tools tend to be....um....less than adequate. My brother once bought me a micro driver set from one of the tables Spavinaw mentioned (bout 3 years ago); every one of them deformed like melted butter upon first attempted use. Poor guy paid for garbage, which is where the entire set went quite quickly. I never mentioned this to my brother as I didn't want to hurt his feelings. I just hope he doesn't buy me any more tools...