Want to Buy Wanted: Parts Leica IIIc for personal use

j-dogg · Dec 30, 2022

Actually I just need the viewfinder plate on the back and the two optical elements in it. If you have one of these beat to hell with a bad shutter or something I need those bits off of it, or just sell me the whole camera for parts I've got a IIIc that's missing this piece and who knows what else it needs. I need the plate and the two glass elements that the plate goes over.

I've been using it with a 15mm ultrawide for a while which doesn't need a rangefinder but I'd like to change that.

Located in Florida, 32780.

chriscrawfordphoto · Dec 30, 2022

Call Don Goldberg (DAG Camera Repair), he probably has just the part you need and it would cost a lot less than a parts body.

608-835-3342

Kodachromeguy · Dec 30, 2022

A replica eyepiece (just the cover) comes from a vendor on the 'Bay:

Leica IIIf/IIIC Eyepiece 3F/3C IIIF Mint No Reserve | eBay

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I may buy one to keep on hand if mine breaks.

j-dogg · Dec 31, 2022

chriscrawfordphoto said:
Call Don Goldberg (DAG Camera Repair), he probably has just the part you need and it would cost a lot less than a parts body.

608-835-3342

I sent him an email he also has the cover too i just need to see if he has the optics. Thanks so far everyone.

I usually do Russian and Soviet-era rangefinders this is my first Leica and I've had it a while but I want to use my nice Russian lenses on it.

dxqcanada · Jan 1, 2023

If you fail with DAG ... I was planing on selling a Leica IIIc parts camera in the near future, it does have the cover and both elements but one of them has a chip.

eli griggs · Jan 1, 2023

You can make the plate itself out of K&S brass sheet, available most anywhere in The U.S., with light cutters, a couple of drills and files and super glue with appropriate Loctite.

Liver of sulfur from Michaels or Hobby lobby for blacking the brass.

30 minutes work, top, besides the patina.

Optics are another complication, unless plain glass.

Kodachromeguy · Jan 2, 2023

eli griggs said:
You can make the plate itself out of K&S brass sheet, available most anywhere in The U.S., with light cutters, a couple of drills and files and super glue with appropriate Loctite.

Liver of sulfur from Michaels or Hobby lobby for blacking the brass.

30 minutes work, top, besides the patina.

Optics are another complication, unless plain glass.

Yeah, right. Or he can buy a professionally made piece for a few dollars and spend his life energy taking photographs.

eli griggs · Jan 3, 2023

Kodachromeguy said:
Yeah, right. Or he can buy a professionally made piece for a few dollars and spend his life energy taking photographs.

It's almost funny how others react to the point of recoiling from suggestions that simple things be made by users for their own kit.

Even the simplest jobs excite outrage and discouraging comments, from outside the conversation, about any attempt at trying one's own hand instead of automatically putting dollars into the purse's of collector's favorite dealers or repair person, which, to me, is a great shame.

Perhaps it is a matter of someone's time being too valuable, to discover what they can actually do and enjoy for themselves, or perhaps, so many of these nay sayers just can no see the importance of self growth.

Whatever it is, it is a lessening of the adventure of being so dependent on others for even the most simple of jobs.

IMO.

Rrrgcy · Jan 3, 2023

Cuts both ways. Buy it or make it. I’d say buy the OEM part.
You can grab the Leica IIIc viewfinder plate on the big auction sight for $13 delivered from heavystar.

[re the above feelings, the other week I spent a lot of time trying to remake a broken tripod piece, for a junk Chinese tripod. I liked the tripod (now looking at its website it might be Japanese or Myanmar). Why. I ask that myself after having spent time and stock to only have me test fit it and crack-break a different corresponding piece on the tripod. Some old plastics just don’t hold up well to even a bit of stress. How much time did I spend on this?! I gave up and a used mint Tiltall arrives tomorrow, but $$.]

eli griggs · Jan 4, 2023

I would make more parts for kit, had I a small milling machine or metal lathe but lots of parts can be made the old way, by hand tooling, a go slow approach, good measuring tools, files and vices.

For example, metal slipon lens hoods are on my list of future projects, using oak molds and an arbor or hydraulic press.

The mold making out of hardwoods, the roughing out, smoothing and final form can be time consuming, I am no engineer nor machinist, but is part of the fun, collimating into a final product that looks and functions as intended.

Definitely a lot longer process than buying from Heavystar, who sells nice lens shades or elsewhere.

Cheers

eli griggs · Jan 30, 2023

Rrrgcy said:
Cuts both ways. Buy it or make it. I’d say buy the OEM part.
You can grab the Leica IIIc viewfinder plate on the big auction sight for $13 delivered from heavystar.

[re the above feelings, the other week I spent a lot of time trying to remake a broken tripod piece, for a junk Chinese tripod. I liked the tripod (now looking at its website it might be Japanese or Myanmar). Why. I ask that myself after having spent time and stock to only have me test fit it and crack-break a different corresponding piece on the tripod. Some old plastics just don’t hold up well to even a bit of stress. How much time did I spend on this?! I gave up and a used mint Tiltall arrives tomorrow, but $$.]

At least you did try your hand, which most people in industrial Nations always seem desperately opposed to do or dirty.

Enjoy your TiltAll, those are good units in general and I hope you've many years of its use.

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