pin registration system?

[brad bordine]

Hi- I am trying to find a "pin registration system". Essentialy some 1/4" pins which work w/ a hole punch to allow me to contact print my seperation negs. Have looked hard w/ little success. Any help is appreciated.

thanks Brad

[Kaatharine Thayer]

Try Freestyle at www.freestylesalesco.com

[brad bordine]

nope, not a Freestyle

thanks

[Don Sparks]

Try here: http://www.gammag.com/sourcebook/sourcebook.cgi? view=codet&keyword=M014240

[Don Sparks]

Sorry Brad, if a search screen shows up at that address, type in the words pin register and you should get the proper page.

[Pete Andrews]

Kodak discontinued their punch and register plate kits some years ago. Pity. It was good system with one elongated pin so that the film couldn't be accidentally reversed.

It's not too difficult to make a register jig, which I had to do when I couldn't find the commercial product. I drilled and tapped a thin brass plate to take two cheesehead screws, at the correct distance for a normal filepaper hole punch. You have to find screws with a head diameter the same as the hole that the punch makes. I think 4BA was the right size, after a slight polishing with fine carborundum paper.As I later found out, not all hole-punches are created equal, they vary slightly in hole size and spacing. So, to save yourself trouble in future, buy 2 or 3 identical punches, and put a couple away as replacements to match your jig.

[Erik The Viking]

Animators use a pin-register system to keep their cels in register. Perhaps you may adapt those to your needs. Do a search for animation art suppliers.

[Joe Lipka]

These used to be common in the printing industry. Another possible source would be a graphic arts supply house, or a printer's supply house.

[Chuck_1686]

I used 1/4" standoffs purchased at an electronic supply store.

[Kaatharine Thayer]

I stand corrected. Freestyle had, until fairly recently, a graphic arts catalog that had several kinds of registration pins and all kinds of other graphic arts supplies, but you're right, that catalog seems to have disappeared from their product line.

[N Dhananjay]

Try Bregman Mfg. They make good pins.

Pin register systems are hard to come by, especially since Condit went out of business. A new source is supposed to be Alistair Inglass in Canada. Registration systems are easy to improvise as indicated above. Good luck, DJ.