View Full Version : flange/jam nut alternative for about $1!
John Kasaian
14-Jun-2007, 09:57
I took a field trip to the hardware store today to see what in blazes I could use to fabricate a flange or jamb nut for my 178mm Aero Ektar. One of the guys suggested a toilet tank to bowl washer from the plumbing department and----it works great! If you have an approx. 3" dia flangeless barrel lens you want to fit onto a lensboard check this out:
thriftco part # 525-T
It is a thick tapered rubber washer that holds even the behemoth nuclear fired A-E tightly to the graphic "C" board (a slight trim is needed to clear the light trap on each side on the lensboard--about a 16th on an inch---easily accomplished with an exacto knife.)
Cheers!:D
Walter Calahan
14-Jun-2007, 10:44
Wow. Cool.
I made working flanges from the lens cone that came with lens off the K-24 camera. All I needed was a drill and a big file.
I'll have to look into the bowl washer idea.
That's the great thing about real hardware stores as apposed to home crepot, they can be helpful. My local osh has everything.
John Kasaian
14-Jun-2007, 15:09
I should correct my original post---by "flangeless" I mean a lens needing a flange or jam nut to hold it onto the lensboard. Sorry for any confusion (but I was just so gosh darn excited about getting the A-E on board!) This is less messy than using gorilla caulk or construction adhesive.
Jim Rice
14-Jun-2007, 15:31
John is on a roll. Too cool.
Rafael Garcia
14-Jun-2007, 17:22
Look at my post on this very subject for another alternative.
Jim Galli
14-Jun-2007, 22:22
How cool is that! And you could use the tank painted black for a wide angle lens shade, and I'm wondering about making some film holders out of those toilet seats! Everything I need in one aisle. Sorry, John, it's late and I've had some vino you know.
I needed a large spacer to move an old Ross Petzval forward so it hit the lensboard right and didn't interfere with the Packard shutter. I'll admit to cutting a 3" ABS waste pipe coupling to the correct size. Once again, same aisle.
Bruce Schultz
15-Jun-2007, 06:50
Much of the time what I shoot ought to go through toilet plumbing.
John Kasaian
15-Jun-2007, 14:42
Much of the time what I shoot ought to go through toilet plumbing.
Bruce,
Try cutting back on the fiber!:rolleyes:
John Kasaian
15-Jun-2007, 14:48
How cool is that! And you could use the tank painted black for a wide angle lens shade, and I'm wondering about making some film holders out of those toilet seats! Everything I need in one aisle. Sorry, John, it's late and I've had some vino you know.
I needed a large spacer to move an old Ross Petzval forward so it hit the lensboard right and didn't interfere with the Packard shutter. I'll admit to cutting a 3" ABS waste pipe coupling to the correct size. Once again, same aisle.
Great minds think alike! I still have a couple of aerial film cans I fabricated out of ABS pipe---it is amazing how much they look like pipe bombs! Even more amazing is the lack of humor among airport security types!:eek:
Hmmm..,film holders out of toilet seats? I wonder...???
Randy H
15-Jun-2007, 15:52
Oh geez. I see another thread starting on a home-brewed ULF built from the plumbing aisle at Ace Hardware. I can see it now:
"Yep. The pictures may look a little crappy at first, butt hey, the vignetting from the padded seat is great!"
John Kasaian
25-Jun-2007, 08:40
ARRRGH! The thing is too thick to clear the circular light baffle on the speeder! I've trimmed it until there isn't enough rubber left to work properly---grrrr! OTOH if you have a camera without a circular light baffle the gasket would probably work just fine (I'm thinking a 24" Artar on the 'dorff) but for speeders and similar cameras, no way :(
Alan Davenport
25-Jun-2007, 09:45
Does the fresnel go inside the wax gasket, or outside?
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