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    Re: Mounting an Old Brass Lens on a 8x10 Toyo Metal Lens Board

    Quote Originally Posted by LabRat View Post
    A fly cutter makes different large holes, but requires preferably a mill that the speeds can be greatly slowed down, and can be very dangerous if everything is not well secured, so not an exercise for a novice...
    That is good advice worth repeating, so it has been in this post.

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    Re: Mounting an Old Brass Lens on a 8x10 Toyo Metal Lens Board

    Kind of a side bar thought to this post but worth mentioning. Someone once posted that you could mount an old barrel lens in a wooden lens board by cutting a hole in the boat just slightly smaller than the threads on the barrel lens, and screwing the lens into the board. Threads on the lens would self cut threads in the wooden lens board.... DO NOT DO THIS. I did and the lens seemed secure enough in the lensboad, but after using it a few times the brass lens came free from the wooden board, fortunately when I was adjusting the iris, so was able to "catch" the lens.

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    Re: Mounting an Old Brass Lens on a 8x10 Toyo Metal Lens Board

    Oh god, that's horrifying

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    Re: Mounting an Old Brass Lens on a 8x10 Toyo Metal Lens Board

    Back when high schools taught wood shop, a properly offered box of doughnuts could coax a teacher into drilling you a hole, or even make a new lens board.
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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