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Printing a lens rim

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Bringing old Lubitel cameras back to life

vladimir-gorsheninVladimir Gorshenin 06/22/2021 at 07:590 Comments

Each Lubitel camera has its own charm! For this project it translates to the need of matching a lens rim to the camera body. From my experience, it can be done just by measuring the body (the diameter of the inner screw thread). Essentially, you need to print and match until the proper rim size is found. To simplify the process, I prepared a set of STL files with rims of different sizes. The files are named according to the following convention:

The lens rim 3D model is designed for the following printing settings:

Please, before printing, pay special attention to first layer calibration. "Elephant foot" would ruin the printed lens rim for sure because the rim's teeth would not mesh properly with a Lubitel's lens rim.

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