Welcome tinkerers to the Bizarre Bazaar of trinkets, trash and triplets!

[medform-norm]

Why wait until Sean opens a corner shop for us? Why not start here and now?
We'll begin with listing small items we're looking for. Willing to pay for postage & perhaps some cash when appropriate. Feel free to add your wish list of bits and trinkets. We have lots of small things lying around useless as well, and so do other people, I imagine. Maybe we can help eachother out.

Here goes:

2 x 94 mm slip-on lens caps
1 x 31,5 mm slip on lens cap
1 x 76 mm slip-on lens cap (can be 77 mm as well)
pecoflex cable release (I know, impossible item)
for the Rolleicord I (Art Deco type): clean front element of Zeiss Triotar 75mm 4.5
also for the 'cord: parkeil 1 + 2 to be used with the proxars; these parkeils are the slip on kind, NOT the bajonet fitting (yet another impossible item)
75mm flange ring
small metal part of rangefinder mechanism of the Welta Solida where the lens inside the rangefinder housing is mounted on (the part Jürgen Kreckel told us ALWAYS gets brittle and breaks, because Welta used the wrong alloy).

Now that wasn't too long a list, was it? Dive into those crumb-ridden drawers and boxes and start looking!

Cheers, Norm

PS I just noticed: we're only 5 posts short of the 500 mark. If I try hard, I could beat Soeren tonight, yes!

 

[laz]

Wow, love this idea Norm! Are we just looking for trinket trades here, or a little cash could change hands? Maybe a $10 limit or something. And "grab bags" could always be fun if exchanged for a few bucks.
-Bob
(oh, I see your post-count is over 500 congrats on beating Soren!)

 

[medform-norm]

Wow, love this idea Norm! Are we just looking for trinket trades here, or a little cash could change hands? Maybe a $10 limit or something. And "grab bags" could always be fun if exchanged for a few bucks.
-Bob
(oh, I see your post-count is over 500 congrats on beating Soren!)

Thanks for your congratulations. How pleasant it must be to extend these, knowing I will never beat your count

Well, a little cash could be involved - as I said, if appropriate. Maybe even more than $10 is someone comes up with the cable release for the pecoflex
As to grab bags, I'm not familiar with this term, but if I guess right, and it's any old collection of trinkets, yes, why not?

But you seem to be the only one to catch on to my idea? Perhaps I should have planted it in the Lounge for better exposure?

 

[Ole]

Norm,

I'm in the North Sea and don't know exactly what I have and what I "need". So I won't say anything until next week!

 

[Imke]

Hey Norm,
great idea, and congrats to 500+!
Here it goes: I am looking for:

1 (one) perspective adjustment thumb screw for the front board (you know, the one that goes up/down/tilt) of a Speed Graphic. Will pay top $!!

Imke

P.S.: Do all those things on your list really exist? You lost me after Rolleicord...

 

[medform-norm]

P.S.: Do all those things on your list really exist? You lost me after Rolleicord...

I'm afraid they do exist, albeit in a parallel universe apparently, as I continually lam ooking for them and not finding any

Haven't met your screw either, sorry to say.

 

[Imke]

LOL!!!

Well, if you ever manage to get access to it (the parallel universe), and it's the one where Elvis is still alive: tell him I said "hi"!

(And if you meet my screw, just sack it, wouldya?)

Happy trails!

 

[glennfromwy]

Imke, if the part you are looking for is the lock nut on the side of the front standard that locks the front rise, I think I have one.

 

[Imke]

Hey Glen, YESSS, that's the one!
I'll pm ya.

 

[medform-norm]

Hey Glen, YESSS, that's the one!
I'll pm ya.

Congrats, Imke, for being the first succesful customer of the Bizarre Bazaar!
Let's hope many others will follow.

Gruss Gott, Norm

PS And add a 97mm flange ring to my wish list, I completely forgot to bid on the one that was on sale yesterday (grmph, sigh, grmph).

 

[Papa Tango]

Rangefinder cam for Super Graphic (#28)

I have got a mess of weird stuff that I will sort through and put on the list. Some of it defies description...

My #1 need right now is a rangefinder cam for my Graflex Super Graphic. Needed is a #28 for the 127mm lens. I would settle for a good scan if someone has one and machine it myself.

 

[PhotoPete]

Anyone out there have a working thrust unit for a Peterson print washer? Or know how I can fix the seemingly boken one that came with the washer I got for free on craigslist? I could also make use of the adaptor that attaches to inlet hose to the tap. I have had to improvise one.

 

[glennfromwy]

Patrick (pragmatist), go to http://www.southbristolviews.com and scroll to the Graflex manuals on the lower left. Rich may have a pdf of these cams. Also check the recent posts on http://graflex.org as I believe someone there has scans.

 

[JHannon]

Anyone out there have a working thrust unit for a Peterson print washer? Or know how I can fix the seemingly boken one that came with the washer I got for free on craigslist? I could also make use of the adaptor that attaches to inlet hose to the tap. I have had to improvise one.

I have one of those washers Pete. I find that the plunger on mine is fussy about the amount of water, you have to turn carefully to get it to move. I also had the hoses fly off and make a mess (not sure if they are the stock hoses). I would just rather have the fitting straight through with no plunger.

I just use this if I have a lot of prints to do. Normally I use a 16X20 tray and the Kodak syphon. Maybe I will see you at the PHSNE show the 19/20th and we can talk about it.

--John

 

[Struan Gray]

Electron microscope film holders - free to a good home.

A new-year's bump for this thread.

One of the departments here is junking an older Jeol electron microscope. Being an inveterate dumpster diver I picked it over, but couldn't find anything that even my wildest optimism could justify keeping in the 'might come in handy one day' cupboard. However, there were some film sheaths for 6.5 x 9 film that I thought someone here might want.

There is sheet film in the holders, size 63 x 88 mm.

The film is in small, lightweight septums from Agfa, measuring 64.5 by 88.5 mm.

The septums are in heavy sheet-steel carriers that measure 89 x 139.7 mm.

The carriers are in a light-proof box that is loaded into the microscope airlock.

All this is the day-before-yesterday's technology, and probably nobody wants it. But, it is also the sort of thing that is like manna from heaven if you actually do want it. So I offer it here free to a good home, buyer to pay postage.

 

[Ole]

The film is in small, lightweight septums from Agfa, measuring 64.5 by 88.5 mm.

The septums are in heavy sheet-steel carriers that measure 89 x 139.7 mm.

Thosa septums are probably the standard 6.5x9cm sheet film adapters for plate cameras. I can use them, if noone else can...

Don't know about the plate carriers though - too big for 6.5x9 cameras, too small for 9x12 film...

 

[Ole]

BTW, I have a HUGE stack of lens hoods in different sizes - metal and rubber both.

 

[Struan Gray]

Ole, I'd like to leave the offer open for the weekend just in case there is anyone using the full system. On Monday the septums are yours. Do you have a reducing back for your 30x40 cm ?

 

[Ole]

Struan, I don't have a reducing back for it. But since the sheet film is glued (at present with blueberry jam) to a 30x40cm glass plate, I can stick any size film in there. Like half a roll of 120 film for 6x40 panoramas?

But I also have two very nice little 6.5x9cm plate cameras - a Voigtländer VAG and a KaWee Patent Etui. And plate size reducing inserts in all possible sizes for my 13x18cm and 18x24cm plate cameras, so I can use 6.5x9cm film with an 800mm lens

 

[Struan Gray]

OK Ole, they're yours. PM me your address and I'll pop the 6.5x9 septums in a jiffy bag.