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Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])
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I had a set of those at uni, they rocked many a house party! I'm also fairly sure they were stolen as I bought them off a guy from the boot of his car in Temple Meads Station.
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It has an extending armIs it me or is that monitor levitating?
The camera and screen resolution are excellent but the mechcanics that hold the camera are poor. There (was) a lot of wobble which simply could not be elimninated by tightening the clamp screws. I'm still working on it, but one aspect was the awful design of the sliding mount with the rack and pinion drive mechanism. The column is an extruded aluminium rod with two semi-circular slots mating with lugs to supposedly stabilise it. The lugs were a loose fit so nothing could be done without a drastic modification. So power up the lathe and mill
What you see below is the lugs having been milled off and a semi-circular insert made from bronze-filled PTFE. Play is taken up by the two grubscrews you can see (this is replicated on the other side of the column). Now it's firm and slides nicely.
Another idiotic design: there is a taper on the the end of the lens holder such that the diameter gets slightly smaller towards the very end. Impossible to clamp the ring light securely as the more you tighten it the more tendency there is for it to slip down - and eventually fall off altogether. So I machined up a ring with an internal 1 deg taper which twists onto the lens - and it stays put. There is a groove for the clamp screws to sit in so it cannot slip off.
However that's not the end of this story due to stupid design decisions in other places. My OCD gets triggered by such things and I will do whatever it takes to make it operate perfectly.