I found an old Grover 8x10 that someone discarded a number of years ago, it's in excellent shape, but is missing the monorail and tripod mount. I've been looking for replacement parts for as long as I've had it, with no luck. So my thought is to either construct a mono rail out of 8020 t slotted aluminum and appropriate linear bearings and fasteners/plates etc or fabricating a wooden field camera style base with a slider of some sort for the front standard to pull focus . I'm not so worried about how it looks, more that it works and I can use it for wet plate work. Getting parts machined is out of my price range.
Before I go too far down the rabbit hole on this, anyone have any insight to what might be the most practical/cost efficient way to bring this camera back to life? Or things to be weary of?
Thanks
J.
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