That's very neat, Dave.
I needed one of those ... Not having a machine shop to play in
anymore, I bought a similar adapter for $8 at the camera shop. Took
half an hour to find it in their stock: it would almost have been
faster to make it if I still had the lathe and milling machine.
David Savage wrote:
If I had access to that kind of plastic manufacturing machinery I
would have made it out of plastic.
There's a machine out there, but I can't remember the name, that's
almost a Universal Fabricator for plastic stuff. You import a 3D CAD
drawing of the part into their
I don't think the objects created that way are particularly durable, I
think you use them to make a mold and go from there.
Doug Franklin wrote:
David Savage wrote:
If I had access to that kind of plastic manufacturing machinery I
would have made it out of plastic.
There's a
P. J. Alling wrote:
I don't think the objects created that way are particularly durable, I
think you use them to make a mold and go from there.
Could very well be. So far, all I've run into are fluff pieces about
the machine.
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2008/6/16 Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
P. J. Alling wrote:
I don't think the objects created that way are particularly durable, I
think you use them to make a mold and go from there.
Could very well be. So far, all I've run into are fluff pieces about
the machine.
G'day All,
One for those who like to tinker. This is what I did for the second
part of today:
in bits
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2577064933_9f3a7b0433_o.jpg
Assembled
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2577065957_5b5336094c_o.jpg
In operation
Nice work. You could market that.
Paul
On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:29 AM, David Savage wrote:
G'day All,
One for those who like to tinker. This is what I did for the second
part of today:
in bits
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2577064933_9f3a7b0433_o.jpg
Assembled
Nice! I paid $8.00 USD for the same sort of thing.
Looks like yours would last a lot longer.
Jack
--- On Sat, 6/14/08, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: My Saturday Project
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net
Date: Saturday
He could never compete on price with the extruded plastic ones from China...
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Nice work. You could market that.
Paul
On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:29 AM, David Savage wrote:
G'day All,
One for those who like to tinker. This is what I did for the second
part of today:
If I had access to that kind of plastic manufacturing machinery I
would have made it out of plastic.
However this was more of an exercise in getting away from the computer
for an afternoon, as well as making a useful piece of gear.
Cheers,
Dave
2008/6/15 P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
He
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