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Re: [OM] Oly parts

Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:48:17 -0500
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)).
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> ----- 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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