Leica M-A style black chrome levers for M4-2

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Anybody knows if the black chrome film lever and the frame selector lever are available as spare parts? My M4-2 has problems with the plastic parts attached to these and I wonder if I can replace the levers by the solid metal ones of the M-A black chrome.Thanks!

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[madNbad]

In the EU, contact Leica's parts department in Wetzlar. In the US, Leica New Jersey was able to supply the MP style rewind and frame selector levers when I wanted to change for a M6 TTL Millennium.

[Paul Verrips]

Hoi Edwin,

I have done this with the M7. It was a bit of a hassle, when i contacted the Leica spareparts department in Wetzlar, this was their answer

Dear Mr. Verrips,
Thanks a lot for your mail. I have forwarded it to our distributor Transcontinenta as we are not allowed to sell directly to end users in countries we have a sales organisation in.

Transcontinenta won't do anything for you in this case, they will send you to the Leica Store Amsterdam. So you better contact them directly.
With my M7 they first send me the wrong advance lever, see picture. I don't know how many types there are, but keep that in mind.
Leica Store Amsterdam (Maarten & Jan-Willem) was very helpful to me.

Groet, Paul

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On 8/29/2020 at 6:48 AM, madNbad said:

In the EU, contact Leica's parts department in Wetzlar. In the US, Leica New Jersey was able to supply the MP style rewind and frame selector levers when I wanted to change for a M6 TTL Millennium.

Thanks for your message. I remember one time I requested something similar in Wetzlar and they directed me to an external repair station that wanted me to send in the camera. This at additional cost of course. Not worth the extra trouble in this case, I think. 

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On 8/29/2020 at 8:20 AM, Paul Verrips said:

Hoi Edwin,

I have done this with the M7. It was a bit of a hassle, when i contacted the Leica spareparts department in Wetzlar, this was their answer

Dear Mr. Verrips,
Thanks a lot for your mail. I have forwarded it to our distributor Transcontinenta as we are not allowed to sell directly to end users in countries we have a sales organisation in.

Transcontinenta won't do anything for you in this case, they will send you to the Leica Store Amsterdam. So you better contact them directly.
With my M7 they first send me the wrong advance lever, see picture. I don't know how many types there are, but keep that in mind.
Leica Store Amsterdam (Maarten & Jan-Willem) was very helpful to me.

Groet, Paul

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Thanks a lot for this info Paul. Next time in Amsterdam I know where to go. I will make sure to get the correct one for my M4-2. Any idea about what the price was? 
Grtz, Edwin

On 8/29/2020 at 6:48 AM, madNbad said:

In the EU, contact Leica's parts department in Wetzlar. In the US, Leica New Jersey was able to supply the MP style rewind and frame selector levers when I wanted to change for a M6 TTL Millennium.

 

[johntobias]

WATCHING....I’d love to upgrade from plastic tip to full metal on my M4-2 as well

 

[Paul Verrips]

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23 hours ago, PhotoEd said:

Thanks a lot for this info Paul. Next time in Amsterdam I know where to go. I will make sure to get the correct one for my M4-2. Any idea about what the price was? 
Grtz, Edwin

 

I paid €100,- for 2 black chrome advance levers

Edited September 1, 2020 by Paul Verrips

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1 hour ago, Paul Verrips said:

I paid €100,- for 2 black chrome advance levers

That sounds reasonable, even un-leica-like. I'll try to arrange that next week. Thanks for your help.

[TomB_tx]

Times change: in 1968 I bought my M4 instead of a new M3 (same price) partly because of the advance lever!

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53 minutes ago, TomB_tx said:

Times change: in 1968 I bought my M4 instead of a new M3 (same price) partly because of the advance lever!

If I could go back in time I would definetly choose the M3. But not just because of the advance lever... 😉
 

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27 minutes ago, PhotoEd said:

If I could go back in time I would definetly choose the M3. But not just because of the advance lever... 😉
 

I now have a couple of M3s in my collection, but the M4 is still my favorite. Perhaps the "first love syndrome"

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7 minutes ago, TomB_tx said:

I now have a couple of M3s in my collection, but the M4 is still my favorite. Perhaps the "first love syndrome"

First love syndrome indeed. The M4-2 was the first M I bought in 1986 after I had a M3-loaner for a while. In '94 I bought a brand new M6 and after that many more (M6TTL's and MP's, Digital M's). Now I'm back to just my M6 and M4-2 and feel like I finally arrived home again. Still looking for a nice M3 from my year of birth, just to complete my definite and final set.