A little late on the post as usual, but here's an update on the status of the build!
Real Kalimar lenses mounted on the painted lens plate. Just used a few coats of satin black. I plan to weather it a bit, but will probably wait to do that until it is mounted:
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Painted the Kalimar viewer top flap. Just used a few coats of satin black as well ...
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Love the look of it!
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Modified the Bell & Howell knob. I counter sunk a 4-40 screw through the center, as suggested by @
Seneca:
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Instead of allowing that screw to be the axis upon which the knob would rotate, I epoxied that screw in place, and went a different route inspired by others here:
First, I used a dremel to sand off the nub on the back of the B&H knob, making a flat surface. I then counter-sunk both of the screw holes from the bottom to allow for a flat surface even with the screws in place:
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I then made two soft plastic washers out of a spare little clear SD card case ... one to sit between the knob and camera, and one to sit inside the camera. I used a 4-40 nylon locking nut to give it a smooth, dampened turn (thanks @
HB1098S !). You can see where I had to hollow out the frame of the Eumig a bit to allow room for the nut ...
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Here's the front of the knob. I decided to use this black-banded version of the Seagull knob, for reasons I posted on the previous page:
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I painted the B&H crossbar grey and tried to match its rotation relevant to the patterned Seagull plate underneath to what my eyes see in reference photos. Looking at stills from the scene where Luke gets attacked by a Sand-Person (which is what I'm basing my knob on) I'm tempted to paint the Seagull aluminum ring to match the grey of the crossbar .... thoughts? Im sure this has been discussed before:
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Lastly, I'm preparing to mount the small Seagull knobs. I know many believe that these were only mounted up to the threads, and have heard reference to photos that seem to depict them sitting higher as if this was the case. Does anyone have photos that show this, and conversely, has anyone found a tap to match the threads on the small Seagull knobs?
All advice welcome as usual. Thanks for reading!
Here's a photo of where they're at right now:
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