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    Looking for some kind of cold shoe attachment with a threaded screw on the bottom...

    So I don't know exactly what I need so I'm looking for suggestions.

    Basically I'm trying to adapt a flash onto an old Polaroid 900. I found a small L-bracket that attaches correctly to the shoe, now I just need a cold shoe to mount on the L-bracket. All that it needs to be is a cold flash shoe with a bolt coming out below it that I can put through a hole in the bracket and screw tight. This allows me to have the flash sideways so it's not so bulky.

    Anyone have any clue if something like this is available? I don't feel like fabricating one.

    I'm thinking this would work but I can't see the bottom to be sure a screw is there. Does anyone have one of these?
    http://www.adorama.com/CBMC.html

    Also if you have something like this around I'd buy it from you.
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    Re: Looking for some kind of cold shoe attachment with a threaded screw on the bottom

    Midwest Photo likely has something that will work for you:

    http://mpex.com/strobist/clamps-adapters.html

    They have some cold shoes with a bolt hole in them, maybe you can make that work?
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    Re: Looking for some kind of cold shoe attachment with a threaded screw on the bottom

    Will it matter to you if it's a hotshoe?

    The Olympus shoes are detachable with little threaded screws in the bottom. But they are hotshoes.

    http://www.keh.com/camera/Olympus--F...10600319Z?r=FE

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    Re: Looking for some kind of cold shoe attachment with a threaded screw on the bottom

    You could just get one of the cold shoes with a hole on ebay and epoxy in a short piece of threaded rod.

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    Re: Looking for some kind of cold shoe attachment with a threaded screw on the bottom

    Hey, I found this on mpex and then Adorama had it. I just made an order last night so I hope they'll throw it in since it hasn't shipped and I won't have to pay more shipping. Even if they do it was only like $13 shipped.

    http://www.adorama.com/BG2932.html

    It'll work perfectly! Thanks for the mpex suggestion.

    (I needed a cold shoe because the hot shoe flash I have randomly triggered in a hot show adapter I've tried on another project so I wanted to avoid that.)
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