A friend of mine brought this Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex Camera to me well over a year ago to see if it could be cleaned up and restored to working condition. I have been busy with many other projects, so I am just now getting to it. The camera appears to have been neglected and […]
Resurrecting Another Treasure: Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex Camera #105 Read More »
I have taken you all along with me as I restored this fascinating Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod, and now it is finally complete! The journey included completely disassembling the pan and tilt device, re-machining some of the bits and pieces that make it work, replacing wood on one of the legs that apparently
Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod : Restoration Complete Read More »
I have a short one for you today, as my time has been waylaid by someone hitting a streetlight in front of my neighbor’s business and knocking it down onto his building and the side of my gate. Very annoying. But I did manage to make a small amount of progress on the leg locks
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Years and years ago I acquired a dozen or so of these Mitchell 400’ magazine castings. They are mostly complete, except for the light traps, the guide rollers, and in some cases the upholstery. Whoever had them before me took all of those parts out, lost them somewhere, but had the castings sandblasted so that
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Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious
Back to Work on the Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod Read More »
Just a quick teaser today: I am currently in the process of balancing a series of mirrored shutters for the ARRI ST cameras. I had to 3D print a spanner wrench to safely remove the screw that holds the shutter to the shutter shaft, and now I am hard at work on the long and
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I am putting the finishing touches on my restoration of Mitchell Standard 46, and I’m nearly done! The painting is complete, and I spent quite a while carefully removing miles of masking tape and paper from the various parts of the camera. The next step was to begin reinstalling the shutter drive, the movement, and
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Now that I am mostly recovered from last week’s sickness, I am ready to get back to work on the final stages of the painting process. All of the masking that I applied to the camera for the internal paint work had to be removed, the exterior of the camera had to be cleaned and
Ten steps closer to finishing Mitchell Standard 46! Read More »
A shorter one for you today because someone (me) decided to get sick on Tuesday morning. But before that, I did manage to get a bit more painting done. The flat black paint has been applied to the interior of the camera body, as well as to a few other bits of hardware. My next
Painting x3: Mitchell Standard 46 Read More »
Work continues this week with the slow and tedious process of stripping, patching, sanding, cleaning, and masking Mitchell Standard #46 as I get the rest of the pieces ready for paint. Over its 100+ years of life, Mitchell 46 has been altered, modified, and abused by its many users, leaving it with a variety of
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