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RE: [APML] Mount Flexure [was: Ticket to Chile]

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Subject: RE: [APML] Mount Flexure [was: Ticket to Chile]
From: "Jon Kolb" <jkolb@datawest.net>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 16:37:02 -0600
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Matt,

> I'm modifying the DCM-2 now. I think exposed aluminum (possibly even 
> knurled) surfaces will keep it from flexing, and the user (me) will
not 
> have to crank the knobs so hard.

Try having the face that mates with the camera body sandblasted at a
local machine shop.  It's cheap and fast to do, and the camera won't
budge after that.  If there are other mating metal faces on that device,
blast them, too.  My superthingamajig is blasted, and a single bolt
holds the Pentax 67 with the 200mm f/4 lens with no differential flexure
problems.

Sincerely,
Jon Kolb
Adventures in Astrophotography
http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/
jkolb@datawest.net




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