My M-6 classic has developed a pin hole in the shutter curtain, does anyone know of a way to fix this?

-- Bill Magness (bmagness@marshinc.com), October 19, 2001

Answers

How do shutter curtains get pin holes? Is it something I should specially watch for other than normal camera maintenance.

-- victor virtucio (danzfotog@yahoo.com), October 19, 2001.

Usually the sun burns a hole in them from the camera sitting on a table facing right at it. Remember the old magniying glass as a kid?

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), October 19, 2001.

Message from the Leica-Users Group Archives:

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I'm not sure what others may have done but I patched a tiny pin hole in the shutter curtain of one of my M6's with a hardware store product called "RubberizeIt!". I keep this stuff around for all sorts of projects and solutions.

I put a tiny amount of the the product on a Q-tip and lightly touched it to the pin hole in the shudder curtain. I did this on both sides of the curtain. And have been shooting with the camera for about 3 years since the repair (2 or 3 rolls a week - average). No problems.

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Cheers,

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), October 20, 2001.

Kodak Black Opaque applied with a #00000 spotting brush will do the trick safely. I did this on an M3 I once owned and it worked fine.

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), October 20, 2001.

Good to know fellow friends.

Just in case, can you imagine how paranoic can we get about burning a courtain.

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), October 20, 2001.

Titanium curtains from older Nikon's F/F2/F3 selling "as is" or "for parts" are working very well in shutters of both Leica M & SM series, when cut and set properly.

-- Victor Randin (ved@enran.com.ua), October 22, 2001.