{"id":3072,"date":"2026-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:31:26","slug":"a-little-bit-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/a-little-bit-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My shop, like most other shops that have a lot of projects happening at the same time, runs into the problem where you get to a certain point in a project, and you just don\u2019t have the last couple of things you need to finish that project. That\u2019s sort of what happened this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A young filmmaker called because he had seen my post from a few years back where I had converted a Mitchell 16 Pro to take single-perf film and he wondered if I had another camera in stock. As it happened, I have a Mitchell 16 Pro that is missing its turret and that I had already converted for single-perf. Finding a replacement turret would be close to impossible, so I setup to make one. I have machined the basic disc and fit it to the camera, indicated the exact center of the camera\u2019s aperture, and transferred those dimensions to the replacement part. Now I am waiting on a tap and die set for making C mount threads before I can proceed on this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, I noticed that none of the ARRI 16 S cameras I have on hand have a magazine port cover anymore, so I thought I would see if I can design and 3D print a replacement. This is another project I have started for my own use, but would be happy to make available if anyone is interested, once the design is complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you saw recently, I took a Mitchell Geared Head into inventory, and it is in need of a better case. I have a case of the right size, but it is missing all of the dividers and supports to properly house the geared head. So that is something else I have begun this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Making<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And lastly, a friend purchased a Fries 15-perf camera that had previously suffered an unfortunate film jam and crash that damaged the pull-down claw. The process of evaluating whether this part can be salvaged, or whether a new pull-down claw will need to be made has begun. I am not sure yet, I am still evaluating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Assessing<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My shop, like most other shops that have a lot of projects happening at the same time, runs into the problem where you get to a certain point in a project, and you just don\u2019t have the last couple of things you need to finish that project. That\u2019s sort of what happened this week. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[34,39,75,191,92],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-cameras","tag-16mm","tag-fries","tag-geared-head","tag-mitchell-16-pro","tag-mitchell-camera-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}