[rollei_list] Re: new Zeiss Ikon- a hollow construct?
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:34:44 -0300
It's true Ferdi; "Alumetall" from Nürnberg provided the aluminium
alloy raw TLR bodies along decades according Prochnow when he comments
the new Rollei's die-cast factory at Singapore that operated from
April 1972, "Alumetall" helped Rollei to install the new factory.
Only to recall the way the Rollei TLR was made during the TLR Golden Age (1959):
http://dobleobjetivo.blogspot.com/2006/11/rollei-factory-braunschweig-1959_25.html
Carlos
2009/11/7 Ferdi Stutterheim <fstutterheim@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The main body of the TLR was made out of high pressure die-cast aluminium
> alloy ("Aluminium Druckguss"). Production of the raw bodies was sourced out
> to a Munich company from the start. The raw die-cast bodies were made ready
> for assembly purely by hand. This took quite a bit of time. It involved
> drilling holes, grinding, and polishing some parts. Look at the side panels
> for instance. In later years the smaller parts were produced using CNC
> machines. This is how it was when I visited the factory in 2003. I
> understand the number of (leased) CNC machines was even greater in recent
> years but I reckon production of the main body never changed.
>
> Ferdi.
>
> Op 6-nov-2009, om 18:44 heeft Austin Franklin het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Machined camera parts, body included, made by CNC machines will be far
>> better in every respect than ones machined by hand. Even Rollei most
>> certainly used CNC machines, not humans, to machine the later TLRs. And
>> before that, they most certainly did not hand machine every body etc. they
>> used jigs.
>
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