Interesting Links for DIY and Projects, place here.

[Brian Sweeney]

I'll start with one,

Kim Coxon's excellent site, with some great instructions for FSU lens CLA and free-for-download repair manuals.

http://pentax-manuals.com/repairs.htm

[Brian Sweeney]

And add this one from Johan,

Originally Posted by buzzardkid

I found the sets of fellow Dutchman Hans Kerensky on Flickr very useful to disassemble a lot of differnt gear. His sets show in detail what to expect and how to proceed.

Thought I'd just share here!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29504544@N08/sets/

[Justin Smith]

Rick Oleson's Tech Notes has a lot of info. I also recommend picking up one of his CD's.

[Brian Sweeney]

I was just going to post that one!

http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-27.html

And did you know he has a FLICKR set,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2626274...7622552007096/

[Justin Smith]

Brian, thanks for the link to Rick's Flickr set - I didn't know about it. WOW!

[Frankie]

You can find almost any parts here:

http://www.mcmaster.com

Shims...especially for Brian.

[Finder]

Here is another place for parts and information:

http://www.skgrimes.com/

[greggan]

Some DIY a mix of easy and more advanced DIY gear
http://www.stockholmviews.com/diyphotogear/index.html

And yes it is my site and yes I would love to get some help with
material for my site and I would love to publish a good DIY so
get in touch if you have some

Rgds/Stefan

[RobVinc]

Big list from my bookmarks, alot of SLR-stuff but also alot of other cameras and genal DIY for photo-nerds:

http://4photos.de/camera-diy/index-en.html

[Ezzie]

For LF projects there are many a site. But start here at fellow compatriot Jon Grepstad's site and you'll find many of them through the links page.

Main site: http://home.online.no/~gjon/

A treasure trove of a projects a resources inks page: http://home.online.no/~gjon/camerabuilders.htm

Relevance to RF? Well there are more than a few RF LF cameras out there being modified every day. One such site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~razzle/

[Ezzie]

Modification of Mamiya Press and Graflexes and the like: http://bigcamera.com/

[Ezzie]

There are a number of projects on Flickr. This guy tackles any type of camera build, from LF to pano conversion of a Nimslo stereo camera with Mamiya press parts. See pages 2 and 3 for cameras.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adbieber/

[je2a3]

http://www.micro-tools.com/ - tools, parts and etc.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Frankie

You can find almost any parts here:

http://www.mcmaster.com

Shims...especially for Brian.

And for protecting your eyeglass lens from Leica-M eyepiece

Try this. Cheap at $12.89/100. Share a pack.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#o-rings/=62m4fv

Part Number: 90025K378

Select: Quad, 0-ring, dia. 5/8" ID, any width (ring thickness, best at 1/8") and Buna-N (hard rubber) material. The ring profile fits the M eyepiece as if custom made.

[randomT]

Not so much for camera repair but many many other projects:
http://www.diyphotography.net/

[Brian Sweeney]

A Home-made nikon F to S Adapter, right here on RFF.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...threadid=91022

[pvdhaar]

My favorite is photojojo, with loads of oddball projects:
http://content.photojojo.com/

[Brian Sweeney]

Originally Posted by rlouzan

http://justinlow.com/articles/repair-leica-summitar

An excellent link for the Summitar. The LTM Summicron is very close, I have done one of those myself.

[buzzardkid]

Page on opening and cleaning a dial set Compur shutter.

I acquired a Welta 9x12 plate camera for EUR 5.00
Had the lenses clean in no-time (all elements unscrew, cool!) but the shutter is stuck at 1/200th. I hope its only gummed up and will have a go at this procedure this evening.

[buzzardkid]

A page on creating your own ground glass for view cameras, and possibly other types of cameras as well.

Takes little investing, but approx. 1 hour of grinding window glass to get the better results. Quick approach leaves you with good glass in 15 minutes.

Next action in restoring that 9x12 plate Welta I got, now that the shutter fires again

[Roberto V.]

Anyone know how to paint brass with a high gloss finish? and how to remove chrome from brass without damaging it?

Thanks
Rob

Edit: I know about nitrocellulose lacquer, but I'm trying to stay away from that due to its volatility.

[ndnik]

This guy designed, machined, and built his own 35 mm SLR inlcuding a Leica-type focal plane cloth shutter.
See http://www.collection-appareils.fr/p...hp?f=37&t=6946 (in French) and http://www.collection-appareils.fr/p...hp?f=37&t=8822 (for an English translation of the thread).

He has also made a 35 mm rangefinder camera, see http://www.collection-appareils.fr/p...hp?f=37&t=9185 (sorry, only in French so far). <br />
(Found on photo.net: http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00X6FL).

N.

photoblog

[Ezzie]

Originally Posted by Roberto V.

Anyone know how to paint brass with a high gloss finish? and how to remove chrome from brass without damaging it?

Thanks
Rob

Edit: I know about nitrocellulose lacquer, but I'm trying to stay away from that due to its volatility.

I would suspect you need to etch-prime the brass for the paint to stick. The same goes for aluminium. An etch primer eats its way into the brass, they are normally two pack.

[buzzardkid]

My pictorial for a DIY lens clean of a Canon 50/1.2 RF lens is here, in this article I describe how to hack the Perfex Wollensak 50/2.8 into a Leica LTM mount, and here you can read how to load 120 spool film into a 620 Kodak Medalist II.

All these articles are available as a PDF file, and on my web site (see signature)

[Brian Sweeney]

Johan- I would like to see the Perfex Mod, but get an error on the page.

"TCPDF error: Missing or incorrect image file: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/3226108106_8535c925c0_o.jpg"