Re: [Rollei] Re: push-on adapter rings

[TrueBadger]

In a message dated 5/12/2003 6:18:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, jerryleh   writes:

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> GK
> 
> Do you mean to tell us that you cannot tell the difference 'tween
> aluminium and stainless steel?  (steel has about 3 times the density
> of aluminium)
> 
> BTW, most of my Kodak adapter rings are made of chrome plated brass.
> which is even denser than steel!.
> 
> Jerry
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> B
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> TrueBadger   wrote:
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> > The nicest ones of these I've seen are the ones made (or made for and sold by) Kodak back in the fifties.
> >
> > They have tabs that are profiled in such a way as to reduce the chances of scratching metal on the camera. They also SEEM to be made of stainless steel, or at least of a very unusual alloy of aluminum.
> >
> > Most others I've seen have "squared off" tabs, apparently with keeping manufacturing costs low as the goal in preference to making them easy to put on the camera.
> >
> > I have several of these that I got in "box lots" of stuff that fit the old folders I use.  I like them well enough that I'm keeping an eye out for sizes I don't have "just in case 
> I ever need them"
> >
> > G. King

As you often do Jerry, you went immediately to the central point of my post. I truly was immensely concerned with the metallurgical analysis here.

G. King

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