If you have a automated focus control for a Type I, you can easily make it work:
http://www.apug.org/forums/groups/zo...-enlarger.html
If you don't want the automated focus control, I'm interested.
You can find the plastic/aluminum couplings at McMaster, part #6183K33. Order a couple; I've broken more than one.
Keith Pitman
Thanks for info. I probably should keep one of those on hand. The broken part of mine is the double u-joint inside the housing, not the wand-connection. Mcmaster seems to have something similar with a double U /adjustable center piece but it's 104.00 bucks.
I can't get that link to work and using search isn't finding it. Can you give me the full heading of the power-adjust thread at APUG? I'm a member over there but hardly ever go.
Thanks! If i can't get this focus thing installed I'll make a deal. Gotta have it or the wand. Too long a reach otherwise.
In APUG, go into "Groups" then look for the Zone VI enlarger group. You may have to join the group to see the topics.
Keith Pitman
This is how I built my focusing wand. First I removed the original focusing knob.
I replaced it with hex attachment to the 1/4"shaft.
Next I used a 90 degree drive from millscraft
Next a screw driver with removable hex drive heads.
You can add any length of extension for what ever height you need.
This makes focusing very easy and when you are ready for the exposure everything disconnects and is out of the way. This works on a type I Zone VI, I don't know if the type II has the same focusing shaft.
Beautiful! I think it's the same for a Type II but I'll check.
That's very clever, Alan.
Originally Posted by Alan Curtis
This is how I built my focusing wand. First I removed the original focusing knob.
I replaced it with hex attachment to the 1/4"shaft.
Next I used a 90 degree drive from millscraft
Next a screw driver with removable hex drive heads.
You can add any length of extension for what ever height you need.
This makes focusing very easy and when you are ready for the exposure everything disconnects and is out of the way. This works on a type I Zone VI, I don't know if the type II has the same focusing shaft.
Keith Pitman
I remember when I bought my Zone VI Type 2 enlarger used, WOW I thought I had a real gem. I did make some very good prints, the exposures were a little long; changing contrast with the controller was a joy, instead of filters. Then one day I saw an add for a Ferrante Cold Light that would fit my Beseler; a "give-a-way" on Craigslist. Since my first print with the Ferrante system, I have not fired-up the Zone VI. It sits in my darkroom and I just have no interest in fussing with the long exposures. Fred knew how to sell in a catalogue, his words and pictures would make photographers drool, and he did provide items in the beginning that were not easily available, but his "own" products were more hype than reality. For me, printing with a variable contrast light source is the only way I hope print while I can, and the field is getting awfully narrow. It's the only reason I still have the Zone VI enlarger. If something happens to my Ferrante head, it is back to long exposures and constant refocusing as the enlarger head slips or settles.
I THINK I found the HUCO knuckle joint I needed and a couple places to order it....takes six weeks to deliver from one place, 10-20 days from another. Unbelievable in Amazon.com/overnight/America. HUCO had five places right in town where I could get it since they only sell to distributors but the three I called couldn't find the part number and promised to call back. They haven't.
Got an Aristo unit sitting on mine. Might get a chance to print something with it today. It's almost level. This is like a test!
Deardorff looking at little rockwork in Climber's Cave, Shiprock, NM.
Got a knuckle joint in hand for about 40 bucks delivered. (second try) It doesn't fit. Has to go to machinist to have the ends bored out and the overall length reduced a few mms. Slogging on in this saga.
Up to 60 bucks, and the machinist didn't grind the ends down to make it any shorter. It's in a little bit on of a bind inside. Probably going to have to pull the link and have it ground down to reduce over-all-length of the universal joint. It works.....but feels too tight. Those plastic U-joints aren't going to like that and neither will the long rod connector.
As a kid in 1971 I tore down and rebuilt an MGB convertible. An ENGLISH car, (parts), kit...as they say. It was less left-handed, counter-intuitive and easier to find the right parts for than this thing.
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