New Elstree Studio documentary with discarded Graflex.

[indignate]

Seriously?? How did you get to see this photo and where??

A member here showed it me yesterday.

 

[R5D4]

As its still a matter of debate here. I recently was showed a new found photo of a new angle of the lightsaber photoshoot, same day as the toe pic saber. Where the bottom can be clearly seen. And I can confirm is attached the exact same way of the Elstree saber. Two rivets, and sighlty displaced from the center.
I cant show that photo. But I guess sooner or later Will come out.

Can you tell us if the bottom stamping said Folmer with or without the patient number? Or did you see New York spelled out or abbreviated N.Y.??

 

[indignate]

Can you tell us if the bottom stamping said Folmer with or without the patient number? Or did you see New York spelled out or abbreviated N.Y.??

While
You perfeclty see the two
Rivets, the image is still too blurry to see such details.

 

[roygilsing]

While
You perfeclty see the two
Rivets, the image is still too blurry to see such details.

WHAT?!!! So there IS photo evidence after all? OMG; I hope someone will publish this!
It's so good to read this!! This proof of the double rivets theory is SO cool! Please PM me that photo if someone is willing to.
You guys know where to get a replica !!

 

[Halliwax]

Consider this, what if the ANH hero lost it's bottom plate and there's a replacement bottom held in by all those rivets.

Would anyone recreate THAT?

...sounds like something a gaffers tape covered booster guy would be saying



You know I love you

 

[slothfurnace]

WHAT?!!! So there IS photo evidence after all? OMG; I hope someone will publish this!
It's so good to read this!! This proof of the double rivets theory is SO cool! Please PM me that photo if someone is willing to.
You guys know where to get a replica !!

Yeah, and I'll be ordering one from you shortly, Roy. Now I have to build a new slothflex.

 

[Halliwax]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this graflex had the rivets in it from the original owner, god knows for only what reason

That’s why some grips are on top of the rivet

I think they were just always there.. pervious owner had then there for some reason.. maybe holding a custom bracket to a different camera

Who knows

 

[SethS]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this graflex had the rivets in it from the original owner, god knows for only what reason

That’s why some grips are on top of the rivet

I think they were just always there.. pervious owner had then there for some reason.. maybe holding a custom bracket to a different camera

Who knows

A don't know why a photographer would do that, you wouldn't be able to load batteries. I think that's out... and I don't think it was a design design from Roger-- which keeps bringing me back to it either also being fiddled with as a possible stunt at some point, or it was a fix during production for the d-ring.

 

[AnubisGuard]

being fiddled with as a possible stunt at some point

Do we know how the motor/wires were held in place on the screen-used stunt? If there's rivets, then it's a possibility.

 

[SethS]

Do we know how the motor/wires were held in place on the screen-used stunt? If there's rivets, then it's a possibility.

Well we know from the V2 there some holes on the side of stunts that needed plugging...

 

[AnubisGuard]

Well we know from the V2 there some holes on the side of stunts that needed plugging...

If that was the case though you'd expect they'd just put the grips over the holes.

 

[SethS]

I'm suddenly thinking of those random holes under the grips on the Vader MoM...

 

[Gregatron]

I'm suddenly thinking of those random holes under the grips on the Vader MoM...

Don't they correspond to the holes the flash would have had as a six-gripped Luke ESB stunt saber?

 

[SethS]

No, they're higher, one is ner the top of the grip. They don't correspond to these Graflex rivets either... just more and more curiousity...

 

[E Williams]

Why would they need rivets in there to reinforce it? It seems a bit odd doesn’t it?? It’s not as If the pull on the D-ring is going to be big or enough to rip the end cap off or the ring itself. You’d need some substantial load to do that, more than it’s intended purpose. I really struggle to believe that they riveted anything on the inside just to reinforce an area already quite strong.

Perhaps they were just on there at the beginning? Some mod someone had made to a Graflex and they had already messed one or two up with the modifications.

Treadwell mentioned he's run into this issue before on one of his flashes:

That's the first thing I thought of, because that happened to one of my Graflexes. The bottom plate popped right off.

 

[Kylash]

Wow i should have checked this thread a while ago...

So the ANH hero had 2 rivets holding the d-ring, and noe 4 other rivets between the grips attached to some kind of core (wood?) inside for more strength?

Anyone got a pic of how theyre drilling these 2 new d-ring holes around their existing 1?

 

[slothfurnace]

I'm suddenly thinking of those random holes under the grips on the Vader MoM...

Makes me wonder what else is lurking under those ANH grips... more holes?

 

[Gregatron]

I think the only rational solution is that the rivets are designed to reinforce the bottom plate. They're perfectly aligned with the rivets on the d-ring bracket. All six rivets are located in that unseen/rear section of the prop.

 

[Joek3rr]

If that was the case though you'd expect they'd just put the grips over the holes.

That's my biggest question. That's what makes me think this particular Graflex already had rivets.

 

[DarthWilder]

That's my biggest question. That's what makes me think this particular Graflex already had rivets.

Though not too hard to drill out the rivets and start with a clean canvas instead.