[pure-silver] Re: Slightly OT...mounting barrel lenses.

  • From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 08:22:36 -0400

pdesmidt tds.net wrote:
> Steve Grime's shop does that sort of thing all the time, i.e. making
> custom retaining rings.  It's not exactly inexpensive, but they do a
> great job.  In a pinch once I used some 5-ply 1/8" thick model airplane
> plywood.  I cut a hole using a fly clutter (an adjustable circle cutter)
> on a drill press. I made the hole just big enough so the thread would
> cut their own track into the plywood.  It worked fine, but it's clearly
> not as elegant or secure as the real thing. 
> 
www.skgrimes.com/index.htm

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