Greetings from Holland. Has anyone like myself wanted to put a theremin on a camera tripod instead of buying a special stand? Well I've got a tripod which we used to call flimsy Japanese rubbish because we couldn't admit to saying 'masterpiece of lightweight design which will conquer the world', and it has the handy system that cameras use only it's a 1/4'' W thread. I'd already had the buzz of legitimately going to the music shop for the first time (for a lead) so I thought I would make an adaptor instead of trying to find one. And I don't want mess up my theremin epecially as some guy with a cool name has signed it.I set about measuring the inside thread and kept getting the unbelievale value of 27 threads per inch. I can cut 26, 28 and metric threads on my lathe but who would want to use 27! After searching the net I discovered that you musicians (I don't think I can call myself a musician yet) do in fact use 5/8''x27 on microphones and this thread was devised by some crazy guy Nat Special. Why? Is this something to do with the guy that dropped dead after touching his mike. What was his name? Anyway, It took me two days to figure out that the pitch of 27/inch is very close to half the pitch of a metric thread so I just had to half the lead screw speed by a non standard switcheroo in the gear train.
I can see you all yawning and you're probably going to tell me that these adaptors are easily available and I should have spent my time practicing.
ttfn.
I can see you all yawning and you're probably going to tell me that these adaptors are easily available and I should have spent my time practicing.
ttfn.