Splicing V-M flat projectors

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Bob Stern writes:

> What I'm trying to do is use two VM flat
> projectors fitted with Susan and David's polarizers and be used
> conjunctively to project in stereo?  Could this be a cheap and dirty way
> out until my kids stop wanting hundred dollar sneakers?  Any ideas?

I've periodically thought about splicing a couple of the VM flat projectors
to make a stereo projector, but it's on a back burner (with lots of my other
less-than-half-baked ideas!).  My garage-sale projector is one of the
screaming-blue plastic battery-operated ones (with some screaming-green trim,
as I recall).  It's actually pretty amazing how bright an image they give
from a little battery-operated halogen bulb.  Anyway, my half-baked plan
involved cutting a hole for a second lens (and a port so that light can reach
the other film-chip) using an X-Acto (or similar) hot-knife, then inserting
the lens from the second projector and cementing in its bulb-and-reflector
assembly using some of that 2-component plastic cement you can find at a
hardware store (this stuff doesn't work well on all plastics, so it might be
necessary to use some other joining method).  I forget how I had planned to
attach the polarizers.  I haven't looked carefully at the projector in years,
so there might well be more involved.  If you've got a pile of them to play
with, though, there's plenty of margin for error!  I realize this isn't really
what you had in mind, but maybe it's something to think about.  Good Luck!


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