very very helpful post,thank you very much for the concept! also, check for
local scrapyards (ambles in minneapolis), you can buy all kinds of machined
metal bits, screws, etc. for scrap cost + some percentage. +it's fun to
look!
> From: Lyndon Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Ericsson Utvecklings AB
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:18:03 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cameramakers] Re: Plans for 4x5 (large worm drives)
>
> Talking of scrapped printers. Ten or so years ago I was trying to get an
> old IBM Displaywriter system working. The printers from these systems
> are very large and very heavy and have in their center a metal frame and
> a large, fine pitched worm drive. A friend of mine used the mechanism
> from a simular printer to make a plotter while we were at college, the
> fine pitch of the worm screw would seem to be perfect as a precise
> focusing track.
>
> The Display Writer cost $1 10 years ago, I know of simular printers that
> have been thrown away. 1980's vintage Daisywheel and Golfball printers
> dont have the flexability to keep up with modern inkjets, these days
> companies pay to throw them out.
>
> Lyndon
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