third try...
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pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert
Oppenheimer
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Sounds good so far, Dave. I'm happy you are satisfied with Kominek's so far.
In my experience they are excellent scroungers of discontinued parts. They
found a meter for one of my Spotmatics. :-)
One time, they told me 3 to 4 weeks for the CLA of my MX, and called less than a
week later, telling me it was ready.
Keep us informed.
-frank
David Chang-Sang wrote:
> Let's try this again
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chang-Sang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Update - SMC-A 35-105 f3.5 fix ? - Kominek
>
> Ok..
>
> IF this gets through here's the scoop on my recent 35-105 F3.5 SMC-A
> troubles and fixes - first, let me bring you up to speed on the problem: The
> Helicoid and rollers are gone on the lens and Pentax Canada said that they
> couldn't fix it because they didn't have the parts and it's an old lens
> (that was all they had to say). I took it to Kominek Camera (
> http://www.kominek.com ) and here's what they had to say:
>
> Firstly they called today as they promised they would (their Pentax guy
> picks up the stuff on Wednesdays and has a price for them and they call me
> the next day). They told me that the estimate to fix the lens would be
> $167.50 plus taxes if they had or could get the parts.
>
> Considering the orignal cost of the lens (about $150 US) it was almost a "no
> brainer" to tell them to go ahead and fix it.
> I've only seen ONE of these lenses locally in a retail location and the
> price was $499.00 CDN so to cough up an extra $180 CDN to get it back to
> sweet working order was more than fine by me. They told me that it should
> be ready in about 10 days (week after next).
>
> I have so far been pretty pleased with Kominek's service for a number of
> reasons:
> 1) They called me back as they said they would on the day they said they
> would.
> 2) They have set reasonable expectations with me, their customer (which is
> ALWAYS good from a customer service standpoint)
> 3) They've been able to go a lot further than Pentax Canada would go for me
> regarding an "old" lens (old by Pentax Canada's terms)
>
> I'm hoping that they can fix the lens (i.e. have the parts) and they did say
> that they would call me if they did not have the parts or were not able to
> attain the parts for the fix. They also told me that the estimate is a firm
> one and that once that estimate is set, the price is not more than what has
> been noted in the estimate so there's no "surprises" when I go get the lens.
>
> I think that all in all, they've given me good service so far. Here's
> hoping that they can get the parts and fix a beautiful lens.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> P.S. Be prepared, as I will be selling my LX and potentially other K-mount
> lenses
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"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true." -J. Robert
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