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A magnet will tell you right away what kind of metal it is, I seem to recall the sheaths in my bag mags and grafmatics were aluminum.
Bending the tabs would require a sheet metal bending brake, if...

I'm with pacviewcam, unless rubylith has changed, there should be a
backing / carrier that you peel off the the film and apply to whatever you're masking.

If you're adept at soldering and taking things apart you could replace the LED's
in a new cordless phone with LED's of the right spectrum for paper,
or remove / black out the LED's if you're tray...

A machinist should be able to cut threads of any kind either with single point threading or with a thread cutting die after turning a blank.
How badly mangled is the screw ? if the screw is damaged...

They look like parts for a Omega E3 or E4 5x7 enlarger, the negative holders are probably the hardest
parts to find for Omega E series enlarger.
...

They're part of a wall mount bracket for the Beseler 45 enlarger
https://www.freestylephoto.biz/8239-Beseler-Wall-Mount-Bracket-for-45M-Enlargers

never mind found out what they are.

Cleaning house , what are these brackets ?
I know they're for a Beseler 45 series enlarger, I think they're
a wall mount bracket but I'm not sure since all the pictures I've
found show a one...

ruilourosa, try looking for split rivets from luggage or hand bag suppliers in your country, you might even try
shops that do leather repairs.
JimC

This link seems to work, takes you to Amazon -
https://quinn-jacobson.squarespace.com/chemical-pictures-book/

Glad to hear you purchased a mill, metal working tolerances can be as accurate as you want to work in.

Any class these days will be oriented towards the latest and greatest. 3D printing, CNC.
None will teach you to work with your hands and use your gray matter. It all relies on
what the you do with...

I think you need to do more research on hobby mills before dropping dimes on that Micromark mill, LMS
has a very similar mill with slightly larger table on the Y axis ( front to back ) but sans the...

You may want to try Stock Drive Products too -
https://www.sdp-si.com/

I think that item in the "clean" picture is a tilting tripod block, I can just make out the pins
for the legs on the notched circular part.

They're cheapie eBay UV LED strips, who knows what the actual wavelength is, but it does expose the photo polymer that I have.

The heat I'm referring to is from the LED chip itself, the individual...

Acid etching is out, I looked at samples of acid etched and acis washed glass at a glazier today and it was like ground glass

Plastic is my fall back, but I'd rather not because of heat rigidity...

I'm building a UV light box and eons ago I used opal glass sheets as diffusion
for backlit animation art, anyone know of a source of optical or near optical grade
opal glass .1875" ish ( 3/16" )...

"...use of a pool on the sixth floor of Kodak B28 where wet 20-foot transparencies were dried overnight. "
That would have been a sight to behold, I have to wonder what the rigging that was involved...

Not much in the specs dept , the leafs of the iris would need to be pretty thick to support a lens and it would need a
locking mech which this doesn't have.
If ya got $50 bucks to burn....

Actually the best glue to use with the BK-5 fabric is HH-66 vinyl cement from RH Products Co. Inc.
McMaster sells it in quarts. Work always intrude on my leisure stuff.

I believe bag mags will work too.

one more for the mechanically inclined -
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/2a/2e/04/e0b7670cbcf3c6/US4482221.pdf

Planetary it is -
https://www.quora.com/What-is-coarse-adjustment-and-fine-adjustment-in-a-microscope

You're probably going to spend just as much doing a DIY , Packards $16.50 sounds a little high for just the bulb
but it's worth it in my opinion just to keep them going.

in regards to hose,...

Ebay is always a good place to look for hardware, glad you found a direct replacement.
McMaster is also a good source too.

There different purposes for spring balances, not just for windows, an...

Kinda late to this thread, the tape balance is a separate unit inside the housing, if yours broke at the D ring it's a good chance any spring energy
has been unwound, but it never hurts to be...

Finding thin materials for bellows is daunting task, there is probably a mill that makes such a such light tight cloth
for outer coverings but it's such a niche product you'll need a secret...

The rack is a brass plate, with the rack teeth stamped in a arc, if you cant see any teeth then it's stripped or the plate is missing, since the gear teeth are steel
the stamped brass rack doesn't...

ic-racer brought up a good point, if you're talking about the back and not just the sprung gg frame
check the pins and the tab holes for the pins, the holes in the tabs may be worn oval and the...

You can add what you want to make it functional for you, since you're looking for function and not resale as an antique, if that means adding fluid levels go for it.
Adding another tripod hole is...

Don't forget Mickey Rooney was a pretty small guy !

Judging by the knobs it's probably a Century Studio

If it's a UPS regulation it's UPS's own lame way of protecting themselves for their own gorilla-like handling of packages,
I recently had an order of materials for work that arrived with one of the...

Len and Labrat have excellent suggestions, I'll add to Labrats washer suggestion that there are star washers ( aka tooth lock or lock washers )
meant to grip the nut and surface when tightened,...

IF the inner box was seated well and the film pouch was neatly cut to open and the end folded over
after the last time you loaded film, you should be fine.

Seems you answered most of your questions by searching this forum and the Graflex forum.




There have been some incremental changes to Grafmatic holders, I have a few that don't need to have...

I'm not sure what the Fuji/Hunt E6 shelf life is of the stock ( undiluted ) chemicals are and how well they
stand up to time past the expiration, but two of the components of old Kodak E6 kits, I'll...

Thanks Randy !

Congrats on the score Randy, a quick question about your Saltzman since it's apart, what's the
measurement of the opening above the cropping blades and the opening
below where the negative carrier...

Brass finish on 2D's varied by the years they were produced, later one's like my 1945 one have a matte finish on the brass, I have a 1901 vintage one
where the brass was mirror polished.