Found a vintage camera shop in Portland with the weirdest 'repair' I've ever seen

I was checking out a little store on 3rd Avenue last weekend. In the back, they had a display case with a beautiful old Leica IIIf. The description card said it was 'professionally restored.' I got a closer look and saw they had glued the film advance lever back on with what looked like hot glue. The blob was huge and cloudy. I asked the clerk about it, and he just shrugged and said, 'It holds.' Has anyone else run into a 'repair' that made you just laugh out loud?

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knight.xena9d ago

That "it holds" logic is why my old camera now needs real glue, not hot glue.

paigec149d ago

Oh man... that reminds me of the time I tried to fix my own headphones with a whole roll of duct tape. They looked like a silver mummy and weighed a ton, but hey, they 'held' for about an hour.