Sean-- I mistyped. It's a Betax #5. (Gundlach 300/4.5)
James-- was it a metal one? This thing feels like cast iron! It's also completely blank, the Betax requires 4 screws as well as the hole, and I have no drill or coping saw-- I'm just an undergraduate, I don't exactly have a machine shop in my dorm room.
For the archives, Lens & Repro said they only offer mounting services for lenses bought from them.
It was cast aluminum. If you have no tools, it is a problem. I drilled a hole fi rst with a drill, large enough for the coping saw blade. I got the coping saw for $1.98 in the bargain barrel at my corner grocery store. You can buy single drill bits for a dollar or so, and turn them with pliers. It will take a while, but you can do this sort of thing with v ery little, if you have the patience. Of course a machine shop changes it from an evening project to a few minutes.
Bring a 12 pack into most any machine shop and trade them the pack for a hole . ps: have them drill before finishing all 12........
for the record: SK Grimes, $15 plus return shipping.
I *did* make trips to a few machine shops here at Columbia (I almost forgot we had a mechanical engineering department) but I had a hell of time finding a machinist to actually DO it for me. They were rather rude, actually, so I gave up and sent it to a pro.
Josh, I'm on the faculty (Slavic Department), and if it's any consolation, I doubt I'd get much better attention over in the Engineering School. Grimes is a good choice.
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