My transition box was purchased form Marv early on in my build. I noticed a few things I would personally change. For instance I'd make it slightly taller to clear the triangle part a few 32nds. There was a posted template in one of the threads, that if I remember correctly the designer gave permission to use. This was not what I used to draw up my design which I haven't done anything with.
As as far as the plate goes, Dave made it as he described. I've never made any parts to sell, only discussed it. After this whole thing, it's pretty clear why you're upset, there's an available plate before yours is available. I'm not a re caster, I just had a part made close to the screen pics, designed better than the one I had so it would work correctly. I contacted Russ several times on here, Facebook, and email from when I bought the plate. I let him know it was a defective one and what was wrong with it. I never heard back. There's only a few ways to make this plate and for it to be screen accurate and work correctly, not sure how doing what I did it re casting. In reality we are all re casters of Lucas Film props.
Re casting to me is taking a part and copying it exactly - making a mold of the part and making exact copies. Not what I did, nor would I do this.
again, thanks for bombing my thread, you have my cell number. Maybe you should have called me and let me know you were making a lens plate and other parts and that you thought I am a re caster. I've never built a prop before, never thought about making and offering parts before, or know much of the ends and outs of all this, BUT what I do know is that I haven't recast any parts or done anything knowingly to take anything from anyone.
Your recast alert thread about me is very distorted as well Jerry. We discussed your mystery box, and I agreed it was yours and dropped my idea to make a metal part. We also discussed the Russ rep piece, the pic of our texting was several months ago and since Dave designed it the way he saw best, one that is screen accurate and worked. Please stop blowing this out of proportion.