At 11:07 PM 11/3/99 -0600, Samuel Morales wrote:
[snip]
>About a year ago , I was talking with a popular Olympus dealer who works off
>the Internet. He claims to have gone to Japan and set up a business meeting
>with some Olympus executives. He offered quite a bit of money up front ,
>to see if Olympus would produce the OM-1 motor-cap , that goes on the bottom
>plate. He offered to purchase a very large number and Olympus kindly said:
>"NO" , why you want old camera , buy new camera 4Ti, 3Ti. , Thank you!
For that kind of money, I don't see why he couldn't use something like a Taig
lathe (widely used as a jig lathe in the aerospace industry) to build a
prototype, or get ahold of a clean example of such a cover and cast it. If
it's just a mechanical part of known (and relatively simple) dimensionality, it
could probably be copied, for far less hassle than trying to get Oly execs to
go along with such a scheme. Hmmm, now that gives me an idea...
Garth
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