Interesting Links for DIY and Projects, place here.

[Sonnar Brian]

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

 

[Sonnar Brian]

And add this one from Johan,

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.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

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/26262745@N08/sets/72157622552007096/

 

[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]

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/

 

[Sonnar Brian]

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

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=91022

 

[pvdhaar]

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

Edit 2018: photojojo no longer exists..

 

[Sonnar Brian]

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.

 

[johannielscom]

cleaning a Dial set Compur shutter

cleaning a Dial set Compur shutter

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.

 

[johannielscom]

creating your own ground glass

creating your own ground glass

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