Wheel's magic chair

cowasaki said:
Arrival from Simonhi

Sandisk 8Gb SD card

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Thanks for the memory.
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Ha ha !!! Glad it arrive ok.

Cheers


Si.
 
Wheels said:
:thankyou: Si very much
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Hey Wheels, You are welcome matey !!!

There seems no point in having stuff gathering dust ? Since I sold my D90 I have had no use for it so I'm glad it has found an approciative home.

Cheers,

Si.

ps - Your'e gonna love the D300s !!!
 
Simonhi said:
Hey Wheels, You are welcome matey !!!

There seems no point in having stuff gathering dust ? Since I sold my D90 I have had no use for it so I'm glad it has found an approciative home.

Cheers,

Si.

ps - Your'e gonna love the D300s !!!
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Going to love every thing you have all donated, thank you very much again:thumbs:
 
Darren and his lovely better half have just been and done a load of measuring up and umming and arrring over how turn my chariot into a Dalek. Poor chap must be fed up doing all this in his spare time.
 
Well i was going to be donating a 4GB CF. But after having a word with my very good friends at Hama who distribute Sandisk ive got you a nice 16GB CF ULTRA II winging its way to me now ;) should take about 2600 JPEGs!!! Should keep you busy.
 
DigitalDepot said:
Well i was going to be donating a 4GB CF. But after having a word with my very good friends at Hama who distribute Sandisk ive got you a nice 16GB CF ULTRA II winging its way to me now ;) should take about 2600 JPEGs!!! Should keep you busy.
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Bloody hell thank you so much Stuart and your friend at Hama, I cant wait get out togging. Thank you again:thumbs:
 
how turn my chariot into a Dalek
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Got a mate who has built his own full sized Dalek....:shrug: (that he rides around in for charity stuff, (and held up Picadilly on Sunday))

He has a spare voice converter if you want a real Dalek sound..... :lol::lol::lol:

Can't wait to see this contraption when it's done mate.....

Bells & whistles....
 
Lynton said:
Got a mate who has built his own full sized Dalek....:shrug: (that he rides around in for charity stuff, (and held up Picadilly on Sunday))

He has a spare voice converter if you want a real Dalek sound..... :lol::lol::lol:

Can't wait to see this contraption when it's done mate.....

Bells & whistles....
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Me 2 I cant wait
 
Just one question - has anyone thought about those little rigger things you get on scissor lifts... I'm not sure this chair won't topple over with all this gadgetry on it! :shrug:

You might need to pimp your motor and wheels too while you're at it so you don't a) sink or b) find you can't go up hills! :lol:

Can't wait to see the finished product - think I'm almost as excited as Julian... :thinking:
 
Snap_Happy said:
Just one question - has anyone thought about those little rigger things you get on scissor lifts... I'm not sure this chair won't topple over with all this gadgetry on it! :shrug:

You might need to pimp your motor and wheels too while you're at it so you don't a) sink or b) find you can't go up hills! :lol:

Can't wait to see the finished product - think I'm almost as excited as Julian... :thinking:
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Its a crappy wheelchair anyway tips me out easily lol
 
DigitalDepot said:
Well i was going to be donating a 4GB CF. But after having a word with my very good friends at Hama who distribute Sandisk ive got you a nice 16GB CF ULTRA II winging its way to me now ;) should take about 2600 JPEGs!!! Should keep you busy.
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:clap::clap::clap:Hama:clap::clap::clap:

well done Stuart you are a real star I know how hard it is to get free stuff off vendors these days:)
 
Not got an update on the insurance yet Julian, I did call a few times today but I think the nice lady must have been elsewhere today so I left a message and will try again tomorrow :)
 
Well I am going to need to fabricate (or get fabricated) part of the metal work after all !!!

Using an arm and clamp on its own will not be stable enough as they will be fully extended. So I need to make some brackets.

The camera will sit on top of a Manfrotto vertical tube from a 055 tripod which will sit in the top section of an 055 tripod. Now what I am going to need will be an aluminium plate maybe 6mm thick and about 11cm by 16cm with the corners rounded. This will need a hole cut in it 35mm in diameter (in the right CENTRE) and then mounting holes (which I can add).

Then I need to fabricate three connecting pieces to mounting points on the chair. I have sorted the location of these out and I am just thinking about what to make them out of (60cm x 2 and 30cm x 1).

Ho hum.....

I want the platform to be VERY stable !!

I am at a wedding tomorrow so nothing will be actually done till I am off on Monday. If anyone has any ideas or access to a piece of aluminium that size or BRILLIANTLY if someone can make this (we can pay if necessary as there is a contingency fund still) I would love to hear!!
 
cowasaki said:
Well I am going to need to fabricate (or get fabricated) part of the metal work after all !!!

Using an arm and clamp on its own will not be stable enough as they will be fully extended. So I need to make some brackets.

The camera will sit on top of a Manfrotto vertical tube from a 055 tripod which will sit in the top section of an 055 tripod. Now what I am going to need will be an aluminium plate maybe 6mm thick and about 11cm by 16cm with the corners rounded. This will need a hole cut in it 35mm in diameter (in the right location) and then mounting holes.

Then I need to fabricate three connecting pieces to mounting points on the chair. I have sorted the location of these out and I am just thinking about what to make them out of (60cm x 2 and 30cm x 1).

Ho hum.....

I want the platform to be VERY stable !!

I am at a wedding tomorrow so nothing will be actually done till I am off on Monday. If anyone has any ideas or access to a piece of aluminium that size or BRILLIANTLY if someone can make this (we can pay if necessary as there is a contingency fund still) I would love to hear!!
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Sorry mate for all the hard graft and time u r putting into this.
 
Wheels said:
Sorry mate for all the hard graft and time u r putting into this.
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Don't be silly, there is enough in the contingency to pay someone to make the bits we need and I have no issues making it either. Just hoping someone has access to the equipment to do it easily and quickly.

Water jet cutting machine :)
 
Darren.. do you have a plan or drawing of the plate you can send me. Can't promiss anything until I see someone on Sunday who has access to metal cutting and fabrication equipment, but it will speed things up if there is an acurate and detailed drawing available to show him.
 
Boney Boy said:
Darren.. do you have a plan or drawing of the plate you can send me. Can't promiss anything until I see someone on Sunday who has access to metal cutting and fabrication equipment, but it will speed things up if there is an acurate and detailed drawing available to show him.
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If someone can sketch it I can draw it up in CAD fro a fabricator.
 
Boney Boy said:
Darren.. do you have a plan or drawing of the plate you can send me. Can't promiss anything until I see someone on Sunday who has access to metal cutting and fabrication equipment, but it will speed things up if there is an acurate and detailed drawing available to show him.
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I have done a separate thread for this, it is VERY simple so have not done a plan.

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I am after a 16 MEGABYTE to 64 MEGABYTE CF card if anyone has one lying around. This is just so I can save the settings for the camera on it and he can stash it away somewhere to restore them if he has a play and looses everything. It really doesn't need to be bigger than 16MB !!!!!

Thanks.
 
cowasaki said:
I am after a 16 MEGABYTE to 64 MEGABYTE CF card if anyone has one lying around. This is just so I can save the settings for the camera on it and he can stash it away somewhere to restore them if he has a play and looses everything. It really doesn't need to be bigger than 16MB !!!!!

Thanks.
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Yeah! I finally found a use for that one I had lying around for ages - I'll have a root, and try and find it...
 
Snap_Happy said:
Yeah! I finally found a use for that one I had lying around for ages - I'll have a root, and try and find it...
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If you don't find it, I'm fairly sure I've got one knocking around in my desk drawer.
 
cowasaki said:
I am after a 16 MEGABYTE to 64 MEGABYTE CF card if anyone has one lying around. This is just so I can save the settings for the camera on it and he can stash it away somewhere to restore them if he has a play and looses everything. It really doesn't need to be bigger than 16MB !!!!!

Thanks.
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Oh I can loose all settings? :eek:
 
I don't know how Julian is coping with the suspense on this. I can't wait to see it all set up and working.
 
Mike Jackson said:
I don't know how Julian is coping with the suspense on this. I can't wait to see it all set up and working.
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the tension is building, I have telephoned the stroke unit I was on only as a precautionary measure. Making sure a bed was available just in case :-)
 
Arrival from Paul, RedPaul

BOOK: The digital photography handbook

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Just had a quick look through it and it looks really very good.
 
Arrival from Dangermouse

Cable release for D300s
Nikon camera control pro
Flash bracket
BOOK: The backpacker's photography handbook
BOOK: Hot Shots

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Thanks. Much appreciated.
 
cowasaki said:
Arrival from Paul, RedPaul

BOOK: The digital photography handbook

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Just had a quick look through it and it looks really very good.
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:thankyou: Paul
 
Arrival from TheNissanMan

Set of Eneloop AA batteries for the flash
EN-EL3e battery to follow......

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Thanks.
 
cowasaki said:
Arrival from Dangermouse

Cable release for D300s
Nikon camera control pro
Flash bracket
BOOK: The backpacker's photography handbook
BOOK: Hot Shots

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Thanks. Much appreciated.
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:thankyou: dangermouse
 
I'll drop all the books off on my next visit so Julian has something to read whilst waiting for the camera etc.

I think we are making real progress of the rest of it. I spoke to Mrs_C's sisters partner yesterday, whilst at the wedding, who has a very large quantity of threaded bar of just the right size. Plus there looks like real progress on the bracket too.

So hopefully some time this coming week I might just get to try and see if we can get it all setup for a dry run. I just need to source some plastic sleaving that can go over the threaded bar. I used to buy this years ago when making brackets for bikes but the shop has long since closed so will need to source some from somewhere else :)

Julian,

If I give you plenty of notice can you be in something else other than the chair on a particular day?
 
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