I just got the Omegalite head casing back from the sandblaster ... he got almost all the old interior finish off. Something I hadn't noticed before: if you picture the bottom half of the head, there is a 5"x7" (in the E-5) square cut out of its bottom for the light to escape and illuminate the negative. I'm sure this area should be flat (as it looks to be in your photo "E3 CLA5", Daniel), in order to rest tightly against the negative carrier. But now, from one corner to an adjacent corner of the opening, the bottom plate material arches downward (toward the negative carrier), peaking in the middle of the side. I tried to capture this in the attached photo.
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This deformation is evident on all 4 sides of the opening. Stress relief from the sandblasting? The arch is significant, maybe 3/16" up from the corners of the opening to the middle of each side. And almost all of the deformation occurs close to the edges of the opening, rather than gradually rising from the edges of the bottom panel.
Daniel, Kevin, I'm looking for a reality check: the bottom casing of the omegalite has deformed?
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