The elusive spanner which was supplied with many Leica enlargers prior to the V35 as the tool to assemble the base board and column. Users will recall that a large fine threaded nut beneath the baseboard has a semi-castellated rim-in other words a plain circular finish with one cross slot to tighten. Short of misuse of a chisel there is not much else that one could use. These tend to crop up in Junk Boxes but really should never part company from the enlarger.All I can find about the spanner like end is that it may be intended to fix an extension tube but I had always thought it was to move those flat nuts on the baseboard locking device.On trying I find it will not fit the nuts so any clarification welcome. ( Film box to show scale and devotion to silver printing!)
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