TE head unscrews!

[wai_leong_lee]

Seems I can't reply to the TE thread. Don't know why-- bug?

 

Ronald, Jerry

 

Here's photo evidence of my TE with the head screwed off. Do I get a free lunch from both of you? Or maybe I got a

real rare TE that you'd buy off me for 10x the normal price?<div></div>

[wai_leong_lee]

Another pix<div></div>

[wai_leong_lee]

With serial no.<div></div>

[ronald_moravec1]

Don`t know anything about the original thread, however you have dissassembled the lens partially. It is not supposed to come apart there under normal use.

[wai_leong_lee]

I am not a lens repairman.

[paul_neuthaler]

You'd better throw it out now!

[wai_leong_lee]

I didn't disassemble a lens just to make anyone look bad. All I said in the previous thread was that my TE head unscrews, and you and Jerry just didn't believe me.

[michael_darnton1]

All of my classic RF lenses did this, one way or another (sometimes there's a locking ring to take off first), even my 28mm Elmarit.

[SCL]

Under normal circumstances it is not supposed to unscrew...this lens was not made to separate the lens head from the focus mechanism (except for repairs), and is not made to use on the Visoflex.

[aplumpton]

If it comes apart with nothing else becoming loose (either within the helicoid, or as part of the front aperture section part), then

it doesn't appear to be very different at all in disassembled form to a larger 135mm Tele-Elmar, which was made to disassemble for Viso

use (I've never used the older Elmarit 90mm so I don't know what it looks like after disassembly).

 

Just a supposition, but perhaps Leica at one time considered adapting this lens to the Viso and didn't go through with it because it might

have required a new adapter (not one of the then current ones) and they already had one or two 90mm lenses that were Viso adaptable.

Also, the whole purpose with the Tele-Elmarit is its compacity for hand held shooting, less so with the Elmarit or Summicron of the

time.

[jerry_lehrer1]

Wai-Leong,

 

I think it is a great achievement to screw your head off at a joint that Leica had not intended. Congratulations!

 

Jerry

[wai_leong_lee]

It fits the viso too.

[mohir_ali]

The engravings on that lens is weird, CLeske.

[nzdavid]

Just had another look at my T/E and there's no way it will unscrew -- and no way I would try to make it. It's a sweet

compact lens and likes staying in one piece! Important question: can you put it back together again?

 

<<I'd forget my own head if it wasn't screwed on.... >>

[wai_leong_lee]

Of course I can. You think I'd break a lens just to get a free lunch from somebody?

[aplumpton]

Mohir raises an interesting secondary point. I wonder why Leitz put Made in Canada on both the barrel and the front

element retaining ring? At one point there was only one mention, and (I may be wrong) some lenses had made in Canada

in black (like Made in Germany mentions on the back of the M6 body). They wondered about putting Leitz Midland at one

point, like putting Leitz Wetzlar on the German lenses. Leitz was not too consistent with their markings on lenses and

cameras (sometimes Leitz Canada, other times Made in Canada, etc.). Happily, the quality of their products was pretty

much consistent and excellent, irrespective of the plant location or the markings.