3d printing a 6x6 ercona mask

[kingbuzzie]

Would anyone be willing to scan & 3d print their ercona 6x6 mask? I wonder how much would that even cost?

 

[JPD]

Here's the mask on eBay, for € 22.50. The camera is included. https://www.ebay.de/itm/273949227514

 

[kingbuzzie]

Here's the mask on eBay, for € 22.50. The camera is included. https://www.ebay.de/itm/273949227514

way too much money. If my camera was mint, maybe.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

In what world is $22 too much money, if you were to actually pay a machine shop to design (3D scan only gets you so far, and who has a 3D scanner?) and print you an Ercona mask it would probably cost you over a hundred dollars. Someone on this forum might be really nice and just so happen to want to spend a few hours making you something with their several-hundred-dollar-3D-duplicating-toys, but it's not really worth their time if you can get it for $20...

 

[kingbuzzie]

In what world is $22 too much money, if you were to actually pay a machine shop to design (3D scan only gets you so far, and who has a 3D scanner?) and print you an Ercona mask it would probably cost you over a hundred dollars. Someone on this forum might be really nice and just so happen to want to spend a few hours making you something with their several-hundred-dollar-3D-duplicating-toys, but it's not really worth their time if you can get it for $20...

Dude. Take a chill pill. With shipping it's over $50 with shipping. If you read my first post "I wonder how much would that even cost?" clearly I don't know what it would cost...

 

[Grim Tuesday]

Dude. Take a chill pill. With shipping it's over $50 with shipping.

Ah for some reason I thought you were in the EU. My point was only the thing you are asking for is non-trivial.

 

[Dan Daniel]

In what world is $22 too much money, if you were to actually pay a machine shop to design (3D scan only gets you so far, and who has a 3D scanner?) and print you an Ercona mask it would probably cost you over a hundred dollars. Someone on this forum might be really nice and just so happen to want to spend a few hours making you something with their several-hundred-dollar-3D-duplicating-toys, but it's not really worth their time if you can get it for $20...

LOL. Really. I worked for a prototyping shop for years. The one time I saw the owner get mad and throw someone out was after spending 30 minutes going over an item with a client who then wondered if he could get 50 little faceted blocks made for $75. Total, not each. The owner swallowed hard, walked him over to a milling machine and pointed at a small block of aluminum being machined for an engineering check model. He pointed at it, said that was $6,000, and that the guy had better take his sample and never come back.

Then again, that was $22 pounds, not dollars......

 

[kingbuzzie]

LOL. Really. I worked for a prototyping shop for years. The one time I saw the owner get mad and throw someone out was after spending 30 minutes going over an item with a client who then wondered if he could get 50 little faceted blocks made for $75. Total, not each. The owner swallowed hard, walked him over to a milling machine and pointed at a small block of aluminum being machined for an engineering check model. He pointed at it, said that was $6,000, and that the guy had better take his sample and never come back.

Then again, that was $22 pounds, not dollars......

I was nice enough to not only respond to Grim Tuesday's inquiry for a camera I was selling, but go to the trouble of resizing the pictures and emailing them directly to him/her to which I didn't even get a thank you or a response. So not exactly the first person I would expect to get on a soap box about wasting people's time.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

I was nice enough to not only respond to Grim Tuesday's inquiry for a camera I was selling, but go to the trouble of resizing the pictures and emailing them directly to him/her to which I didn't even get a thank you or a response. So not exactly the first person I would expect to get on a soap box about wasting people's time.

I am not on a soap box about wasting time, I am just telling you that the thing you want is not a trivial thing. That is all.

Sorry about not responding to your email, I forgot about it and when I came back to the forum a few days later the camera was sold so I figured no response was necessary. I should have responded right after I got it, and for that I am sorry.

 

[kingbuzzie]

I am not on a soap box about wasting time, I am just telling you that the thing you want is not a trivial thing. That is all.

Sorry about not responding to your email, I forgot about it and when I came back to the forum a few days later the camera was sold so I figured no response was necessary.

Point taken.

 

[tezzasmall]

I'm just wondering if the OP could make the mask out of thin card or plastic or something.

I'm only going by the photos on ebay, but it looks like it would not be too complicated?

Just a thought.

Terry S

 

[Ian Grant]

I have a 6x9 Rada roll film back, pre-WWII which is NIB although the box has slight water damage, it came with a 6x6 mask which is just a simple matt black painted Aluminium piece of metal.

The mask here looks slightly more complex as it clips into place, I think maybe to strips of black card could be used either side held in place with Blu tack (don't know the US equivalent, it's used to put posters etc on walls. You'd need to ensure the edges are light tight. My 6x9 Ensign Selfix cameras use two laps to do this.

Ian

 

[Jojje]

Can they 3D print spring steel nowadays..?

 

[kingbuzzie]

Can they 3D print spring steel nowadays..?

After looking at a pic, you're right... Maybe not so easy to print.