[Leica] IMG: Loupe, Clamp, and Map

[Jim Nichols]

Glad it worked out for you, Douglas.  Nice people are more plentiful 
than we sometimes think.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/28/2017 6:09 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Jim, I went to that engineering firm which is a treasure trove of 
> lathes and other interesting spinning things. Very nice people there 
> and we chatted about motorcycles, and particularly Velocettes. It 
> transpired the owner has a father in law in his eighties who has a 
> collection of vintage, veteran and classic motorcycles, including a 
> couple of Velocettes. The owner mentioned that the man who services 
> all his lathes is also a Velocette owner, and, in another case of 
> nominative determinism, has the appropriate surname of Turner.
>
> Anyway, I'll have a new leg for my little von der Gonna clamp next 
> week, so thanks for your suggestion.
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Loupe, Clamp, and Map
>
>
>> Thanks Jim, I'll put that in train tomorrow. I see that there's a 
>> light engineering firm near enough to here, and I'll drop around to 
>> them with the clamp, and see if they can oblige.
>>
>> On von der Gonna, I see that there was a man of that name as CEO of 
>> Certo cameras in Dresden, Germany, so I'm assuming/speculating that 
>> the clamps were produced by a subsidiary of Certo there. So, if 
>> that's true, then there are lots of those clamps and their quite 
>> possibly intact legs lying around the drawers of forgotten bureaus 
>> that were once owned by obscure photographers of a disappeared East 
>> Germany. I feel a mini-series coming on :-)
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 12:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Loupe, Clamp, and Map
>>
>>
>>> Douglas,
>>>
>>> I'm not certain, from the photo, exactly what is broken, but it 
>>> appears that one of the legs is broken at the root of the threads.  
>>> If that is the case, a machinist can drill the stub that is left in 
>>> the hole, and use an "easy-out" to remove the broken end.  Then he 
>>> should be able to thread a short rod to replace the leg.  It 
>>> probably would not have the knurling on the leg, but it would 
>>> certainly be serviceable.
>>>
>>> Just my two pence.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 1/26/2017 5:35 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>>>> Broken von der Gonna camera clamp, with loupe, and map extract. 
>>>> Fuji X100S. See Large.
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Loupe+Clamp+and+Map.jpg.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sadly my pre-war (I think) von der Gonna clamp which was handy, 
>>>> pocketable, and very useful to mount cameras on, has had one drop 
>>>> too many and one of its screw-in legs is broken. It will still work 
>>>> as a clamp or can be screwed into a tree, but can't be used as a 
>>>> mini tripod. I have searched the internet to try and find a 
>>>> replacement, but there's nothing - even searching German sites. It 
>>>> may be the last one in existence.... But then again, maybe not :-)
>>>>
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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