Albion Mounting Jig

[P3D Bob Aldridge <bob.aldridge@xxxxxx>]

->Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:07:17 -0600
->From: P3D Joel Alpers  <joel.alpers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
->To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
->Subject: Slide Mounting Jigs
->Message-ID: <33DCC3B5.7FF7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
-> 
->David Motz writes:
-> 
->> Can anyone comment on the the Nightingale jig or the Spicer mount
->jig? > What exactly they are, how they are used, availability (if
->any) and what a > reasonable price might be?  Are there any images on
->the web? 
->I've not heard of the "Nightingale" jig,  

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Well, I have one in front of me as I type. 

It's a wooden box 6.3in x 4in approx base dimensions. The top slopes
from a height of 3.5in at the back to 1.5in at the front. The top half
of this sloping top is of wood. The bottom half is of frosted perspex.

The right hand 4.5in of this perspex form the mounting surface - it is
illuminated by a small mains voltage bulb in the box. Lines are scribed
on the surface for near and distant homologue separation. These are
separated by 62.23 and 63.4mm respectively. These dimensions are
engraved on the perspex.

There is a brass bar at the bottom of the mounting area for alignment of
the bottem edge of the slide mount. A threaded stud in the centre os for
a clamping device to hold the mount firmly in position.

The left hand end of the perspect top is a small guillotine for film
cutting. A peg was provided to engage a sprocket hole to allow even
cutting, but as the cutter is illuminated, I removed this feature, long
ago!

Hinged to the back of the box is a carrier that holds two watchmager's
loupes. The power of these is not marked, but they can be swung over the
slide mount to allow the chips to be adjusted whilst viewing in 3-D. The
window can be adjusted whilst watching the visual effect, or you can use
the inscriced lines to set the close points or the infinity points.

So really, it's a very simple device that could easily be constructed at
home. The only difficult would be the scribing of the lines, but you
could easily use the mounting guages from Reel3-D ofer your perspex.
Personally, I left them off the jig that I made for 2 x 50 x 50 mounting
- I just mount to the window...

No pictures of it on the net - but I could take a pair and scan them
onto my site - you know, the one that I've had "under construction" for
the last couple of years or so... :-) :-) :-)


Bob Aldridge
Stereoscopic Society Projectionist
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