Here are the materials required to make possibly the easiest and best land camera battery conversion ever. You will want an LED torch, an old 9 volt battery snap, a Velcro cable tie and a soldering iron. The LED torch can be gotten from ebay very cheaply, $3 with postage in my case, and comes…
Here is perhaps one of the simplest and neatest battery conversions for the 3 volt Polaroid Land Cameras that you will see anywhere. Here you can see where i have broken the old battery retaining clips of the original Polaroid battery holder in order to give me a plastic frame on which to mount my…
The Polaroid Land Cameras were originally designed to be used with flash bulbs and as such use what is called M-sync for the flash synchronization. M-sync fires the flash before the shutter opens (as opposed to X-sync which fires when the shutter is fully open) so that the bulb has time to ignite and illuminate…
A friend of mine found a nice Smiths heating unit with the optional de-misting attachment for me which I was very grateful for. I had to modify the manifold heating pipes and engineer a flow tap for the heater out of an old ball valve, some steel tube and a brass wingnut that I had…
A project that I worked on back in my university days, we made it into the St Kilda Film Festival.
After getting the rolling chassis in order it was simply a matter of riveting all of the galvanized bright-work back onto the tubs, doors tailgates and bonnet using domed aircraft rivets. A set of new Lucas indicator lamps were added to the front mudguards where the original white parking lights once were. The reason for…
Once all the brake lines were fitted it was time to bleed the brakes. I had rebuilt my original master cylinder, honing and putting a seal kit in it, sadly it was worn past tolerance and leaked fluid. I was faced with the option of having my original cylinder lined with a stainless sleeve or…
The next part of my restoration involved fixing the bruised and battered panels which were showing a good 50 years of abuse. Many of the spot welds had broken near high stress areas such as door latches and seat bases while many sections of the aluminium doors had work hardened and cracked. The tailgate was…
Unfortunately I don’t have many pictures of my land rover from before I started the restoration, it was 2006 and I was between digital cameras. This was not helped by the fact that I immediately started stripping it down upon getting it back to my place, so you will have to take my word for…