I filmed a test today! I was able to grab some shorter set screws for the golf club and chinese fabric. Now it can spin down and tighten inside the bunny ears
this is from about 6 feet away, much brighter than I anticipated.
Not kidding, it's a cheap Samsung phone with the camera flash on while I record video. That's it. There's sunlight behind me from the covered window too.
It's hard to tell but this is a very skinny pole, a little less than 16mm at the base and maybe 7mm (guessing on that one) near the tip
in ESB, since they had both red buttons in place, I'm guessing the lower 2/3 sections were in place, like mine.
Dann that looks so cool! I LOVE your placement of the bolts and screws... much better than what they seem to have doneI actually made a 3/8" dowel stunt blade, just for fun, a few weeks ago. Even turned down the base of the dowel and added a steel sleeve. The core is secured with the big flat head countersunk bolt (either M6 or M8, I can't remember), and the little slotted screw between the sockets. There's a little 4-40 grub screw that you can access through the beer tab hole.
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The replica Graflex halves I've had for YEARS, now. For the life of me, I cannot recall who made them! I plan to send it away to be plated, eventually.
I doubt we'll ever know, but a red button doesn't need any where near the internal clearance that a glass eye does. A solid core wouldn't have to be very much smaller than the Graflex ID for there to be space to get a button threaded in solidly.
how much clearance do we need to get a red button in there? (I know its more than this)
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So we can get 1 thread, or 3/4 of a thread and it will generally stay in place. It pokes up a bit, so we have to look for this detail in both red buttons. The upper plug also will do this to the upper button
I dont think you're crazy - i noticed the same thing earlierNice, Tom. And thanks! I also hadn't considered the upper button being affected by the top plug. Good thinking!
Speaking of the top plug, I just noticed this. It looks to me like we can see the plug in the rectangular hole, which is usually hidden by the shroud:
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Thoughts? Am I making it up?