Thanks to your help I was able to sell the enlarger, 3 lenses, a lens turret,
multigrade filters, and a few other misc. parts for 44,000THB. Painful to sell
stuff there's little likelihood of ever finding here if I ever change my mind,
but also little likelihood of me ever using it again. I left the rivet for the
buyer to deal with. Jobo, easels, and a bunch of other goodies have been sold
as well. Just have trays, a full set of Jobo 1500 series reels and drums,
steels reels and tanks and some smaller contact frames for alt printing. Eric
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 10:44:27 PM GMT+7, Ken Hart
<kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That pin is actually a rivet. It should be fairly easy to punch out. After
removing the rivet remains, that hole and the hole to it's left in your photo
should line up, and you could put a small bolt through it. (maybe a #8 by 1/2")
Ken Hart
kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 3/3/21 5:10 AM, Eric Nelson (Redacted sender emanmb
for DMARC) wrote:
Not until I got your email! THANK YOU!
Gosh this was so simple of a fix and staring me right in the face!
Of course once I got past this and figured out how to re-assemble the life
arms, (I knew that NOT taking pix of that would bite me in the a__ later!) I
found that a pin in the actual lift arm that you grab to lift the head to
remove a negative carrier, has been sheared off at some point in the 8 years
since it was shipped here from the US. Minor thing, but someone else will have
to deal with it. Thanks again Ken. :)
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 10:41:56 PM GMT+7, Ken Hart
<kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did you get this squared away yet?
Your video showed exactly (I think!) what the problem is at the end. On the
back-side of the column, there is a cross bar with two black plastic wheels.
These wheels look like train car wheels: they have a flat surface that carries
the weight of the train on the track-rail, and they have a lip- larger in
diameter than the flat part of the wheel- that keeps the train on the track.
These wheels are riding on the top surface of the railroad track (the column),
rather than the edge of the track. These wheels need to be further apart, so
that the lip is over the edge of the column. Gentle force did the trick on my
D5. In your video, the wheels are riding about halfway between the edge of the
column and the sawtooth- they need to be moved out to the edges of the column.
These wheels, in the position they are now, would prevent the negative stage
from being parallel with the baseboard- the front edge would be high. Once they
are in the correct position, the front edge of the negative stage will be lower
and aligned. They will also line up the carriage side-to-side. Once the wheels
are in the proper place, the rod you removed at the beginning of the video will
keep the negative stage carriage centered and square.
Ken Hart
kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 3/2/21 1:05 AM, Eric Nelson (Redacted sender emanmb
for DMARC) wrote:
Thanks I've found one on alignment which is basically what I need to do.
Have to look at them some more.
To better illustrate the issue, I made my own video. Omega D5 XL Alignment
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On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 2:01:29 AM GMT+7, Bill Riley
<bill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I highly recommend doing a search on YouTube for Omega D5 Enlarger. There
are many very useful videos. If helpful, give the video a “Like.” It really
helps the creator.
Regards, Bill Riley
On Mar 1, 2021, at 1:35 PM, titrisol <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is one here:
http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/manuals/enlargers/omega/OmegaD3andD5.pdf
On Monday, March 1, 2021, 9:22:01 AM EST, Eric Nelson
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just taken out of storage my Omega D5 XL and found the head at the
top with the 2 lift rods OVER the top of the column. I took off the 2 lift
rods to get the thing down from there but now the neg stage platform doesn't
allow the lift rods to go back in place.
It's been over 8 years since I've worked with this thing so I'm kinda lost
and given how simple the enlarger is, you'd think I could figure it out but I
can't see what I need to do to get things back in place. It's next to
impossible to do this without photos or a video but I'll at least get the ball
rolling now in case anyone has a manual for this thing. I have the one from
https://photoarchive.tundraware.com (once I turned on my VPN) but I'd found
that one out in the wilds already.
If anyone has or can direct me to a manual I'd be very grateful!
Eric
