Rare Kodaslide II

[P3D <BD3D@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I read the mail at work but left the file there, so I'll have to trust 
my memory (hah!) to address the questions.  

The reflector in the green viewer is not glass but polished aluminum.  I 
incorrectly described it as convex.  It is slightly "tented" down the 
centerline.  It makes contact with the DC bulb holder about two mm before 
the slide carrier would reach its limit, so some modifications would have to 
have been made if they had chosen this as a production feature.  The idea, 
it seems, was to reflect more light more directly to the main deflector than 
the flat white production version did.  (Did I say deflector?  I meant re-
flector, of course.  I'm such a candy-butt sometimes! :--))

The viewer currently has one of your 75 v AC bulbs in it.  It looks as though 
it has never had batteries in it.  I haven't tried to compare with my dark 
(dark, semi-sweet chocolate, mmmm...) brown viewer as far as any effect the
reflector might have.  The optics seem the same, however.  It's not some 
top secret ortho-viewer!  Bill Ewald did mention that an ortho-viewer was
 considered, but they found that the 35mm lenses of choice would have cost 
THEM $35 per viewer.  No way could they get that past the bean counters.

Best regards,
Bill Davis


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