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Glad to see this got resolved, and refresh my memory. I vaguely suspected SCSI termination was built-in. Glad to see that confirmed. I have one and got it running on my old PC.

The PC I have now...

I just talked to Mr. Ritter and got advice on my next action required.

You know, every person I have ever met or dealt with from Vermont has been outstanding nice, friendly and helpful...must be...

The missing part was one of the gold-plated 'screw-post' sets. The screw was still in the bed, but the post was long gone. Nothing inside. I ended up putting an aluminum one in. The screws are all...

ugh...now to figure out why...
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I am not prepared again...the s/n was in the 4xxx range, maybe 4609 or so...next time I open it again I'll check and try to write it down.

I was able to improve the side rail...

Thank you all very much for your informative replies!

True, it has not had a lot of use, and I did notice how sharp the knurling is on the knobs...I thought they were kind of uncomfortable on my...

My 'other' sense vote initially was about my 'sense' of (im)balance...not one of the 'true 5', but a distraction for me. Vertigo due to Meniere's Disease...fun fun fun, lemme tell ya.

I was going...

Thanks, Gem.

It's puzzling. I just looked at the photos and there are parts that sure look like clear-coated unstained walnut to me, and who knows what elsewhere. I suppose I should have the s/n...

Thanks, Mark.

I edited my initial post to add a link to photos stored in a free website with annoying banner adds. Sorry, but that's where they live for now.

I commented before without having...

(I added a photo link at the end of this long post)

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I borrowed a Zone VI 4x5 from a friend who calls it 'too heavy' since back surgery & hasn't used it much since.

He's probably going to...

That's interesting.

I've seen and heard of the 10,5 cm coated Solinar being the best of the available lenses on the Agfa 6x9 folders, but never ran into a longer f.l. one This does seems right...

A (1955?) Elwood catalog says 7 pieces of 'ordinary' glass functions as heat absorbing glass, and works better than one thick piece.

The sandblasted spot is approximately the diameter of the lamp,...

Caldwell Mfg only makes tubular spiral window balances now.

They sold the tooling to L&L Concepts of Hagerstown, MD.

http://www.llconceptsinc.com/

They still make the (Caldwell) 154 that is...

I contacted the Indpls Historical Society (or similar name) to see if they had any history on Elwood Pattern Works. Apparently it was quite an operation at one time.

All they had was 2 brochures...

Triple Anastigmat agrees with the book I saw that said essentially anastigmat = 3-or-more elements, highly corrected'.

I will try to find the book, if only to make sure I'm not story-telling and...

Somewhere (I think a 5-volume encyclopedia of Optics & Optical Engineering edited by Rudolph Kingslake), I read that the anastigmatic name (I guess in the opinion of the writer at the time it was...

I get the impression from the Surplus Shed listing that this variety of Metrogon has a fixed aperture. The description is a bit ambiguous in discussing changeable aperture Metrogons, but not stating...

Eddie's got the sodium thiosulfate name right, and probably meant sodium sulFITE for second chemical (I think, because sodium sulFATE is used for, among other things, possibly, high...

Good idea on photographing the process...I will try to invest the effort.

Other than convenience of pickup, this was probably the most practical 8x10 enlarger for someone of my runtly stature to...

I think I saw someone's post about 14"x14" re: the glass.

Good on the wheeled base. It was hard to tell disassembled what will happen regarding it's balance. Right now the 'tapes' are not...

I could have added on to an existing Elwood enlarger thread, but I'm heading off more into the weeds than most of the other posts.

I just picked up an Elwood 8x10 that I began asking questions...

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Good Day John

My 545 is metal too.

OK, so my 500 is probably not too useful at the moment. It's a weird wrinkle-tex beige color...I guess it's better than avocado green.

I'll see if I can recycle this thread, 7 years dormant.

I received a box of kamera krap today. It included a Polaroid 500 filmholder with a handwritten note about a catch wire missing, usable if...

TRIPLE exposing a roll of 35mm film. I think double in the first pass in an Argus C-3 that invites multiple exposure, then removed & loaded into another camera because the leader was still...

I got a broken 4x5 Crown Graphic & got it running. Before I had any film I had a friend load 2 sheets for me in one filmholder. I went to try and shoot a huge building with a 135 mm lens. I backed up...

Yeah, either bad shutter, bad iris, or both. When you get enough bad ones it makes the risk of making one worse by working on it less scary.

I think Jim has an open door policy at home now...the kick plate and the antique walnut door have been stripped out for camera work.

Thanks Ian.

My friend implied there may have been some Franken-lensing going on.

I'll give it a try...

Thanks. That handbook has questions and answers I haven't thought of yet.

A friend gave me a lens, and I think it might be a hybrid.

Front cell says Ensign Anastigmat Series VIIN, rear cell not marked
in E. Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter.

I can't find info for that...

Damn, holy krap, and Great Googly Moogly, Jim!

We've heard of nutcases. but a nutbarrel?

Amazing.

Great !

Thank you both. This is helpful.

I have data for some and not for others...

I am trying to get together a game plan for testing of oddball films I could not resist acquiring (aerial, xray, microfilm and graphic arts). Kind of like FAS instead of GAS.

I have some low gamma...

What kind of polarizers tolerate the heat of lights? Or, rather, how much heat do various polarizers tolerate?

I bought a lot of expired chrome film in various formats because is looked cheap.

The processing is not. Some day I'll do some cross-processing :O)

I have heard 3 stops latitude on some chrome...

Same geometric issues as lensed negs, say 8x10 probably use 250 mm or longer.

If you're enlarging only a portion of the neg, shorter would work.

Unless you LIKE enhanced blur, not much...

Plan?

You got time?

1) Get some while the gettin' was good. I don't have space to do it yet, but I got a good price.

2) I worry that I may not be able to get mural paper, as I would like to...

I keep going back to modernpostcard.com because they have been most helpful in getting us satisfactory results with my rudimentary PhotoShop skills.

I have never figured out color profiles, and...

I agree with Domenico about the abstraction idea. I noticed that helping customers with picture framing. I have a different view than they from the other side of the table, but the composition is...

Another good source of tiny hardware are the hobby shops that sell the airplane plywood.

I have some lenses that appear to have enough only threads for a metal plate (like the integral plate in...