You have been you since the day you were born: fascinated with machines and parts of machines. Appropriate first word, "Gock" translation: clock. Meaning any flat, round device containing gears, and having numbers on it's face. -- you insisted that the scale at the supermarket, in 1993, was a "gock" --- you also tried to use the mouse on the computer as a foot-controlled device (as you had seen on my sewing machine) which allowed both hands to be free to be used on the keyboard!! Genius!! :)
How do you feed the film through the entire machine? Do you need to pull each stage out of the tube and thread a leader initially before you can start?
Pretty much! The whole thing can come out as a rack, and since the machine currently lives in my closet I find it convenient to hook the rack onto the hanger... pole... thingy. That way I can just thread the leader through all the stages then lower it back down. Though I'm thinking that a later version could put the stage cores on sliders like those used in drawers. Then you could just pull the leader across all stages under the bottom pulley, and as you lower one stage at a time from left to right, it would pull the leader off of the spool. Optimistically thinking that could get load time under a minute. (Before you set the film to develop for five to eight hours :P)
ah I think I understand - so you're saying that if the bottom rollers were slideable - all of the rollers could start at the top - and you just thread it through like a needle, and then you can slide the rollers down without having to pull the whole housing out? This is very cool I am working on building something very close using the models you've provided. The fan-adapter for an airblade is so cool, does it work pretty well?
It works pretty well, but it requires a decent air compressor which is SUPER LOUD to run in a small apartment for hours on end, especially when you live directly above your landlord. I've since come up with two more approaches to a drying stage: One where the airblade has a longer internal airpath that tapers so that you can use a blower fan instead of a compressor, and another where drying is given its own whole stage tube with a fan to provide continuous airflow over a four-foot section of film. I'll try to get an update video out this week with that and a couple other discoveries.
Also I'm excited to hear that you're working on your own linear processor! Would love to hear how that goes, as well as answer questions if you run into any difficulties.
How do you mount the free rollers? Are they just on a metal bar? - do you use bearings? The internal spacer and the top cap printed perfectly - excited to get my first stage working.
You have been you since the day you were born: fascinated with machines and parts of machines. Appropriate first word, "Gock" translation: clock. Meaning any flat, round device containing gears, and having numbers on it's face. -- you insisted that the scale at the supermarket, in 1993, was a "gock" --- you also tried to use the mouse on the computer as a foot-controlled device (as you had seen on my sewing machine) which allowed both hands to be free to be used on the keyboard!! Genius!! :)
How do you feed the film through the entire machine? Do you need to pull each stage out of the tube and thread a leader initially before you can start?
Pretty much! The whole thing can come out as a rack, and since the machine currently lives in my closet I find it convenient to hook the rack onto the hanger... pole... thingy. That way I can just thread the leader through all the stages then lower it back down. Though I'm thinking that a later version could put the stage cores on sliders like those used in drawers. Then you could just pull the leader across all stages under the bottom pulley, and as you lower one stage at a time from left to right, it would pull the leader off of the spool. Optimistically thinking that could get load time under a minute. (Before you set the film to develop for five to eight hours :P)
ah I think I understand - so you're saying that if the bottom rollers were slideable - all of the rollers could start at the top - and you just thread it through like a needle, and then you can slide the rollers down without having to pull the whole housing out? This is very cool I am working on building something very close using the models you've provided. The fan-adapter for an airblade is so cool, does it work pretty well?
It works pretty well, but it requires a decent air compressor which is SUPER LOUD to run in a small apartment for hours on end, especially when you live directly above your landlord. I've since come up with two more approaches to a drying stage: One where the airblade has a longer internal airpath that tapers so that you can use a blower fan instead of a compressor, and another where drying is given its own whole stage tube with a fan to provide continuous airflow over a four-foot section of film. I'll try to get an update video out this week with that and a couple other discoveries.
Also I'm excited to hear that you're working on your own linear processor! Would love to hear how that goes, as well as answer questions if you run into any difficulties.
How do you mount the free rollers? Are they just on a metal bar? - do you use bearings? The internal spacer and the top cap printed perfectly - excited to get my first stage working.