Rant: A customer brought in a Leica M3 with a shutter that sounded like gravel
This was about three months ago, a guy walked into my home shop with this beautiful old M3. He said it just came back from another shop but the shutter sounded wrong. I opened it up and found they'd used some kind of thick grease on the slow speed escapement, gumming it all up. It took me two full hours with a ton of q-tips and lighter fluid to clean it all out, piece by piece. The worst part was seeing tiny metal shavings mixed in, like someone forced a gear. I got it running smooth again, but it was a real mess. I'm still annoyed thinking about the state it was in. Has anyone else seen a repair that made you wonder what the last person was thinking?