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Re: [OM] Oly parts

Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:46:49 -0500
In the distant past, I had been given BOXES full of old parts by Olympus
(before they instituted the 'crush everything' routine) and honestly, I
hardly every need anything from those boxes (and it's not that I don't know
what's in there, I've put everything into a database), maybe the occasional
name ring or element (all of which have been segregated to their own
locations.  I find the glass to be most desirable, those are the LC parts on
the list).
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John Hermanson  www.zuiko.com
Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts


> OK, sounds to me like we're wasting our time. If John's already
> cherry-picked the good stuff. I didn't hear him jumping in that he had to
> have the parts.
>
> Tom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
>
>
> > If sent back to Olympus Japan, they would put them in the crusher.
They'd
> > never use them.  The philosophy is, move on, buy new product, don't fix
> > something old.  Clint and I (and others) heartily disagree.
> >
> > (BTW, I cherry picked what I wanted from that list about a month ago,
> > anyway, and even after that, there were 278 OM-1 black battery caps left
> > ((or so I was told)).
> > _________________________________
> > John Hermanson  www.zuiko.com
> > Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
> > 21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743-4714
> > 631-424-2121 For Free Olympus manuals,
> > please call 1-800-221-3000
> > _________________________________
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Walt Wayman wrote:
> > >
> > > > I had composed a post saying essentially the same thing, then I
> > > > saw yours just as I was all set to launch mine off into the
> > > > electricity.  Count me in.  This stuff needs to be where it'll do
> > > > some good for some good people, and they are us.
> > >
> > > I've been looking through the list of items that are contained in this
> > lot,
> > > and from what I can see, a good percentage of the parts are
replacements
> > for
> > > things that just don't usually break.   When was the last time a
> diaphragm
> > > blade needed replacing?  How about a lens helicoid?  Had your OM-4
front
> > > casting changed lately?  All these parts came from Carsen, the
Canadian
> > Olympus
> > > distributor.  As a distributor they needed to maintain a complete
stock
> of
> > > replacement parts.  I suspect these are the left over parts which they
> > never
> > > used.  Ideally these parts should go back to Olympus Japan so that
when
> > that
> > > obscure part is needed once in a blue moon, it will be available.  As
> for
> > the
> > > price, I suspect he's looking for around 100f net which would be in
> the
> > $10K
> > > range.  That can buy a lot of parts bodies and lenses :-)
> > > -mark
> > >
> > >
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