A great job! I really admire your persistence in bringing the camera back to life.
A great job! I really admire your persistence in bringing the camera back to life.
You have a laser welder? Wow.
Yes, I was wondering about the viewing hood; I don't often see spares for that, and figured that you'd have to re-make one.
[QUOTE=cikaziva;1102851].... several small things left to do: laser weld part of a bed lock, make a new better lens-board hinge and finally rebuild the viewing hood that looks like it was in compost!
Great job, Luka; it looks fantastic.
Wow. This is looking sweet.
Originally Posted by cikaziva
Projects like this are never finished, there is always some component that can be changed with better one, and it can take forever so you can say its finished! for me project is finished when its 100% operational and when it can do what its for. in this case this camera is ready! it works and am making some test shots with it ASAP. several small things left to do: laser weld part of a bed lock, make a new better lens-board hinge and finally rebuild the viewing hood that looks like it was in compost!
Conratulations on Linhof resurrection Luka!!!
Excellent work!
Great restoration job! It looks great! I am rebuilding a Tech III myself. Where did you get ahold of a leather hand strap? And did you use anything to clean off the chrome before you put the new leatherette on? I was thinking of taking some super fine steel wool to mine to try to smooth and polish up the chrome bits, but didnt know if this was a good idea or not....
Incredible!
Today on a program was Viewing hood, this part looked like it was in a composite but i unfortunately didnt take the photo of it. leather was molded and almost alive and metal parts looked like a toilet cover. i blasted with corse aluminum oxide and then powder coated it. now am waiting for the viewing hood leather from the same guys who did a bellows. i also ordered new Yanke focusing screen with Fresnel... things are coming along
O its something to clean it. you need to go several hands. first peel it off then mechanical scrub, am using teflon screwdriver thats soft to schrach a metal but it will annihilate any old adhesive. it takes about 5h of work to skin a linhof. finally i use Go-gone but be careful because all the product will leave residue so finally you have to clean with lighter fluid, i always use methanol. strap was made by one of my friends whou makes leather straps for watches and if you want i can get you one form him. shoot me PM and i will give you his email
Vick my friend has it and i do all my welding in his shop. its a micro welder that is used in jewelry, watchmaking and prosthetics. there is a limitation for how big things you can get under the microscope but anything smaller then 4'' is ok
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