P3D Re: Viewing slide storage sheets

["Peter van Zuijlekom" <pzuijlekom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     In # 2566 Paul Talbot wrote on viewing 'slide storage sheets' :
     
     >My poor man's approach would be to lay the page on a light table,
     >and view them with my PT'd$3.  (A $3 viewer with the diffuser
     >cut off, and the lenses replaced with DrT's Revere achromats.)
     
     I think you can build a 'viewing device' quite easily.
     I tried to make an ASCII drawing of what I've in mind, see below.
     (Boy, am I bad in ASCII drawings !)
     
      
               ---------------------------------------------
               |                                           |
               |                                           |
               |    sliding mechanism                      |
               |     ---         ---                       |
              |||-----------------------------------------|||    sliding
              |||    ---------------                      |||   mechanism
              |||    | |         | |                      |||
       (b)    |||    | | ()   () | |  (c)                 ||| <------|
              |||    | |         | |                      |||    
              |||    ---------------                      |||    y-motion
              |||-----------------------------------------|||
               |     ---         ---                       |
               |                  ^                        |
               |                  |                        |
               |                  |                        |  <------|
               |                                           |    Aluminium
               |               x-motion                    |      frame (a)
               |                                           |
               |                                           |
               |                                           |
               ---------------------------------------------
     
     
     Build yourself an aluminium (or whatever metal you're familiar with)
     frame, slightly bigger than the format of the storage sheets (a).
     Make a second frame which can slide on the first one; y-motion (b).
     On this second frame, mount a Dr. Talbot modified viewer that can
     do the x-motion (c). Sounds like a couple of hours work on a
     rainy day to me. Forgive me if I'm not clear enough.
     I'm not a native English speaker   8<{)}
     Also be patient with me if somebody else came up with the same
     idea. I'm in digest mode, so I'm always somewhat behind.
     
               Peter van Zuijlekom
                     GouDDDa
                 The Netherlands
           pzuijlekom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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