johnpipe
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This did not begin with the intention of being a prop; the beginnings go back to the 1960's when I was a student member of the SMPTE. I had purchased a model E Cine Kodak 16mm camera, the one pictured here, and wanted to have an external film magazine for it. I dreamt of the idea for a goodly while, but hadn't any of the tools and machines needed.
A few years back, I decided to make a magazine as a full-scale model, with the intention that it should be actually workable, and if I could get a motion-picture course at the local JC then it would be feasible to put some film through it. This hinged on getting a machine-shop course, but they seem to have been dropped from the curriculum, so finishing off the details waited for a while.
The magazine body is 1/4" MDF, front and rear, hard wood floor and top/center spacers, and some spacers around the curved portions. The curves are "plated" over with paper mache! Cereal-box cardboard forms the base layer, brown paper bag strips the build-up, and diluted white glue the paste. This dries hard and can be sanded and shaped.
Since I could not get machine-shop tuition, I decided to do the best I could with minimal tools to complete the magazine box; McMaster-Carr came in handy for various components, including 5/16" brass key stock, delrin pulleys, 1-1/4" delrin round-bar stock for the spool core, 6061 6" x 12" aluminum sheet for the spool flanges, 3/8"L x 1/4"bore bronze graphite dry-lube bushings.
R190 HS daylight-loading spool, with 200' of out-dated Kodak Vision2 500T Estar, in long-pitch HS loading, next to shop-made standard-speed spool
I had hoped to make a new camera body, re-designed to accept the magazine, but it turns out that I could not make up the spool with sufficient accuracy, and that means the needed film guide rollers are beyond me; the main culprit here is my 10" Chinese-made Craftsman drill-press, that does not drill quite concentric holes, thus throws off accuracy badly. A new camera-body was a consideration for a shop course, so I've left the body un-modified, leaving the combination as a de facto prop since it's not going to be able to run film.
My terminal illness is progressing steadily, so further projects are "iffy;" I've got bad edema, with sciatica on top, so this limits my activities. I'm enrolled in home-hospice care and it's probable that I'll be bed-ridden by years end. I'm involved with other projects, too, including a home-made 4 x 5 view camera, that's entered in the upcoming Sonoma County Fair, under Adult Fine Arts, Woodworking, and when I'm able to stand on my feet for any length of time I tool around in the "darkroom" (bathroom) trying to master the art of printing from paper camera negatives!
Hope you like the model, and hope y'all are doing OK.
Regards, John
A few years back, I decided to make a magazine as a full-scale model, with the intention that it should be actually workable, and if I could get a motion-picture course at the local JC then it would be feasible to put some film through it. This hinged on getting a machine-shop course, but they seem to have been dropped from the curriculum, so finishing off the details waited for a while.
The magazine body is 1/4" MDF, front and rear, hard wood floor and top/center spacers, and some spacers around the curved portions. The curves are "plated" over with paper mache! Cereal-box cardboard forms the base layer, brown paper bag strips the build-up, and diluted white glue the paste. This dries hard and can be sanded and shaped.
Since I could not get machine-shop tuition, I decided to do the best I could with minimal tools to complete the magazine box; McMaster-Carr came in handy for various components, including 5/16" brass key stock, delrin pulleys, 1-1/4" delrin round-bar stock for the spool core, 6061 6" x 12" aluminum sheet for the spool flanges, 3/8"L x 1/4"bore bronze graphite dry-lube bushings.
R190 HS daylight-loading spool, with 200' of out-dated Kodak Vision2 500T Estar, in long-pitch HS loading, next to shop-made standard-speed spool
I had hoped to make a new camera body, re-designed to accept the magazine, but it turns out that I could not make up the spool with sufficient accuracy, and that means the needed film guide rollers are beyond me; the main culprit here is my 10" Chinese-made Craftsman drill-press, that does not drill quite concentric holes, thus throws off accuracy badly. A new camera-body was a consideration for a shop course, so I've left the body un-modified, leaving the combination as a de facto prop since it's not going to be able to run film.
My terminal illness is progressing steadily, so further projects are "iffy;" I've got bad edema, with sciatica on top, so this limits my activities. I'm enrolled in home-hospice care and it's probable that I'll be bed-ridden by years end. I'm involved with other projects, too, including a home-made 4 x 5 view camera, that's entered in the upcoming Sonoma County Fair, under Adult Fine Arts, Woodworking, and when I'm able to stand on my feet for any length of time I tool around in the "darkroom" (bathroom) trying to master the art of printing from paper camera negatives!
Hope you like the model, and hope y'all are doing OK.
Regards, John
