Thank you for your prompt answer!
Yes, it's a shame I missed it. It's a search I try from time to time, but with few hopes of finding it; actually It was a surprise to know that recently there were any at all! Obviously my searching method -lack of- is not good enough.
Of course I took for granted that the original tool was not available a long time ago. As far as I know, Retinas wasn't sold in Spain so I suspect that Spanish repairmen had to use ingenuity instead of the original Kodak tool and maybe they made their own tools; if this is the case, they have to be somewhere; this is a line that I would like to research.
While that, I'll try to figure out how to make my own tool, what approach is simplest and best.
Here’s your opportunity: https://ebay.us/m/QiLFuZ
Many thanks, well seen. I'll try to get it.
Good luck.
Update: I just discovered that this is the exact same tool from the same seller that was sold on August 2nd. You may want to ask them why this ended up being re-listed three weeks after it had supposedly sold. IE: was it returned, and if so, why?
Seller answered.
Clarified: it's not the same tool. The proof is this new one is engraved in the shaft with "National Camera Repair ..." while the other don't.
I guess that both tools came from an old repairman shop. I have some manuals and magazines from them, and I know they made shutter analyzers and collimators also, but I didn't know they made small tools as well. Apparently this company/asotiation faded long time ago ...
Thanks for sharing your experience. Let's see what happens in the auction.I bent a piece of 4mm brass rod into a v shape and filed the ends to fit in the notches in the ring. Not terribly difficult.
Rumbo, I'm guessing it's not you who has driven the bidding price up to $350 USD already? Yikes.Thanks for sharing your experience. Let's see what happens in the auction.
Rumbo, I'm guessing it's not you who has driven the bidding price up to $350 USD already? Yikes.
Somebody wants that tool real bad.
Given that kind of valuation, I might have to start renting mine...
Well, finally I won the auction, but it wasn't me who raised the price.
Initial price for the first tool in eBay was 25$, but this time the seller started with 99$. The action was this way: somebody raised the price to 150$ -something reasonable- but then other bidder come up and started bidding aggressively till reaching 345$. I raised just 5$ but it was my last trench and I thought I was going to be easily surpassed; eventually It didn't happen and I got the auction, first surprised was me.
I guess it's positive that camera repair equipment is in demand?? Not sure. Seems to me that would indicate a demand for nicely repaired cameras.
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