Looking for: Vee thread based worm wheel

Jon Anderson · 2011-12-02T16:47:33+00:00

Had a brochure years ago for a company that made worm wheels cut to use standard threaded rod for the worm. Can't find it now. I might well end up making my own, but at least want to see (if they're still around) what an off the shelf worm wheel would cost.Anyone run across, and remember the name of this outfit?Jon

Dec 02, 2011 22 Replies

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Well, I spent 30 years collecting all sorts of stuff. Back when I started, money was very very tight for any sort of projects. I've always been a fan of making stuff out of other stuff even if the design isn't optimal, so long as it functions well enough for the task. I guess I'm a borderline hoarder... Pretty easy to design and make functional stuff with sufficient catalogs to shop from. Not everyone can look at a pile of crap, er, stuff, and make something useful out of it. There is of course, a big difference between designing for manufacturing, and designing for personal use, to save $$.

Did a quick Google search on images, looks very interesting. But kinda big for shipping. How much do you want, and how much does it weigh? That could see a fair bit of use as is, I've got hundreds of slides I'd scanned, but would love to copy with my camera. I shoot in RAW and can do so much more WRT restoration than with scans.

Jon

It's a professional piece of equipment. I used it mostly to produce slide shows from mixed-format originals, since I used to shoot a lot of 4x5 and 6x7cm transparency film. And I used it to make internegs.

I'll dig it out tomorrow and see what I have with it. I think I still have the Schneider 50mm enlarging lens that I used for most copying. I've also used it with a 50mm Nikon and a 75mm Nikon enlarging lens; a

55mm Micro-Nikkor; and, with a jerry-rigged setup, a Schneider process lens for the view camera.

If I forget, remind me in a day or two. I'm swamped.

BTW, if you're into these things, I also have a bulb-release behind-the-lens shutter for barrel-mounted view-camera and process lenses, which I no longer need. It never saw much use but it did save my bacon for some multiple-exposure shots. One made the cover of American Machinist back around 1980.