Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 8 Demo Video

 

Finishing this session with a short demo video.

Getting tired so it's pretty crude, will follow-up with a better one.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 8

From the last session we are going to cut  a piece of clear plastic that will be glued onto the back of the carrier to support the negative.. We can the do some test scanning!

With the clear plastic cut and glued to the bottom of the negative carrier we can put aside with some weight on top.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 7

 Working on the top phone panel.

Cutting some plywood strips for the edges of top phone panel.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 6

 Another day and back again to have another go at cutting another piece of Acrylic.

Yay... a nice clean, clear and unmarked piece of 'Acrylic glass' that will sit on top of the negative to stop it curling. This time I trimmed off two edges of the sheet to get away from where air and moisture had penetrated the edges drying out the adhesive backing. Same again hair dryer and where needed Tree Tree Oil. This time for the final clean I used a microfibre cloth!

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 5

 Making the sliding carrier holder that will contain the actual negative.

Measure, mark. and drill the corner holes for the scroll saw blade.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 4

From the last session we glued the planks together so we can continue making the basic scanner box.

The planks are tongue & groove, we don't want the groove on the bottom planks so trimmed them off on the 8" sliding mitre saw and here we are planing the bottom edges and checking they are all the same width.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 3

The scanner box will have rectangular slots on either side. The sliding carrier will be inserted from the right side - something like that.

Scrap piece of thin MDF.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 2

 

Making a start building the box with no planning or sketch drawing. I figure however it turns out it needs a base so let's jump in without dipping a toe.

Found a scrap of MDF that will just be large enough.

Kodak Negative Scanner - Part 1

 Forward (by Me)

A few years ago most of our family did the DNA Kit thing with Ancestry,com. When the results came back there was lots of fun and laughter. Well I'm back now (last month) doing the full thing, The Mackenzie Tree is well established and growing nicely. Inevitably this leads to searching for family photos, no issues there everything is stored in one particular spot. I also found another solarity shoebox (OXFORD SHOES) at the bottom of the wall unit in my study - what's that?

My dad's shoebox crammed full with packets of negatives (no photos) from 70 plus years ago - Crikey

They must be Kodak negatives, he always had a Box Brownie hanging from his neck at family functions and outings. The single negatives are very odd and I'm trying to determine the format - 70 x 110. They of course won't fit any regular scanner like the DIGITNOW! that I have.

So... how do I scan them and this leads us to a new project - Negative Scanner Box.

Envelope of Kodak 116 negatives (70mm x 120mm).

Garden Sentry 12V - Part 3

Back from Bunnings with the irrigation fittings I need so we can now start building the low voltage motion activated sprinkler.

From left PIR Sensor, Impact Sprinkler, 15mm Female To Female Rural Poly Irrigation Coupling , Irrigation Solenoid, 15mm Female To Female Rural Poly Irrigation Coupling, 13mm Tail x 15mm BSP Male Director, then garden hose (phew).

Garden Sentry 12V - Part 1

Back from Bunnings with the irrigation fittings I need so we can now start building the low voltage motion activated sprinkler.

I am always prompt to check stuff like this so I know it's not DOA.

Workshop drainage - Part 12 Final

 Finish pebble back filling

After finishing and tidying up in the chook run we are back outside to finish backfilling the pebbles.

Getting ready to staple the edge of the cage wire.

Workshop drainage - Part 11

 Finishing inside the cook run.

As posted yesterday before I can finish the last bit of pebble backfilling there's some work to do inside the chook run - in that corner..

We stopped back filling here.

Workshop drainage - part 10

Backfilling the drain

Weather cleared nicely; was able to go out and do some more like back fill the drain with soil and back fill the top end of the PVC pipe with gravel.

Workshop drainage - part 9

Connecting PVC pipe to corner grate

Mixing up some mortar in a spare chook tray bed which is actually a kitty litter tray screwed to a chipboard base. I say 'spare' because we only have one chook left (Speckles) all the others are gone.

Workshop drainage - part 8

 Prepping to put in the 90mm PVC storm water pipe and connect to the corner grate.

About to spray paint the top of the PVC pipe Brunswick Green lol so it blends in with the backfill pebbles.

Workshop drainage - part 7

 Been busy doing other things but now back to garage drainage

Back from Bunnings with more bage of concrete mix and backfill pebbles.

Garage drainage - part 6

Lovely morning so let's get out there and mix come concrete.

Rather that fill the whole trench with concrete I'm just doing pads under the joints.

This is the left or fence side.

Garage drainage - part 4

 Back home from Bunning with some drainage stuff.

4 x Everhard Compact 1M drain and 1 x Corner.

More digging...lol

Garage drainage - part 3

I need to work out how to connect 90mm PVC to the corner grate.