New SL2 owner - Smudged Hotshoe Text?

[dkCambridgeshire]

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Put some nail varnish remover on a tissue and carefully wipe it off ... job done. If the paint also wipes out of the logo fill it in with an F (fine tip) Staedtler permanent Lumocolour pen ... any colour you like. 

[V23]

17 hours ago, wizard said:

I suspect it could not be spotted because it only happened in the box. In other words, it seems like what has happened is that the camera was packaged before the paint in the hotshoe has had time to set sufficiently. So the smearing happened in the box when some other part was pressing onto the hotshoe. If I am correct, then there was nothing to spot when the camera was put into its box.

 Wrong assumption dear wizard, procedure is as follow: engravings are overfilled with paint, let stand for paint to dry and then the excess paint is removed by gently rubbing it off with cloth. You can see it in one of the Leica cameras production videos. So to me it is oversight by worker responsible for this procedure as well as final QC.

[hdmesa]

On 5/11/2022 at 11:55 PM, V23 said:

...it is oversight by worker responsible for this procedure as well as final QC.

I would say, "What final QC?" as this would be impossible to miss.