Anyone interested in various hardware?

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TroutPro

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I've been working on some projects for myself, and I'm curious if others would be interested in purchasing these items. I should have the prototypes ready for a shoot this weekend.

1/4" female mount on Marshall 7" Monitor - Just like the 1" x 1" aluminum piece on the bottom

75mm cup for fluid head - made from machine grade PVC, 5" x 5" with mounting holes on 1" centers

Turntable / Lazy Susan for Crane / Jib - Made from machine grade PVC, designed to either mount on 75mm cup, or bolt to 4" x 4" patern

Cheese Plate - Wood, machine grade PVC, or aluminum with holes drilled on 1" centers

Cheese Plate Jig - Use a drill press and self-centering drill bits to make your own cheese plate

"sticky pod" style suction cup mounts - currently has three cups, could do one with four cups

Various mounts for lights (5/8" and 1 1/8"), glidecams, or glidecam smooth shooter arms whch will either bolt to 4" x 4" pattern or have a slide mount on 1" square tubing.

Lots of router work involved, as well as a CNC program for the cheese plate. Haven't gotten to the welding yet. TIG if I have time, MIG if I don't. I'll try to upload pics sometime soon.
 

Some gear pics are here.

One is of the tripod turntable. Those pieces are very rough and are going to be completely redone to incoperate a 4"x4" pattern so they can be bolted to a hostess tray.

Another is of the 75mm cup, neither of which has been drilled for mouting holes because my boss is taking his sweet time writing me a cheese plate jig program for the CNC.


There's also the three cup suction mount. The cups use 1/4" studs and I plan on running a 5/16" bolt through the center so I can mount it to some cheese plate, creating a similar setup to the one in static hood mount test pictures, which used single cups at each corner of the cheese plate. I felt the single cups on 1/4" studs were a little too flimsy.

There's also a photo of the marshall monitor mounts, which are raw aluminum hit with 120 grit to give a brushed look.

Price and quality will be dictated by interest. If I'm making two or three it's a whole different ballgame then making 20 or 30. More units = higher cost but higher quality. I'm curious what people would consider a fair price for items like these. I've not done any research on what similar items are being sold for.
 
Hey Trout, I need one of the female monitor mounts. i have the Marshall 10.4, but I'm sure they are the same. 3 small holes in a triangle pattern with 1/4 20 threaded hole?
Thanks
Jeff
 
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