Building removable epoxy mounting brackets
posted May 6th 2010 11:00am by Mike Szczysfiled under: digital cameras hacks
[Jykazu] wanted to use an external lens with his Kodak Zi8 but he didn’t want to alter the camera or glue something onto it. His solution was to build a bracket out of epoxy dough. He first covers the camera in scotch tape to protect the finish, then he kneads the dough to mix the two parts together, using it to form the bracket that you can see above. After curing, the bracket barely sticks to the smooth tape and can be gently removed. A lens cap with a hole drilled in it is glued to this bracket and works like a charm for connecting the lens. Check out his manufacturing method in the videos after the break.
This is a great method for many applications. Last year we saw a product called Sugru which seems to be made for this type of thing but [Jykazu's] epoxy method is just as impressive.
[Thanks Chee]
another person doing something stupidly simple that anyone could have thought of yet no one did(or atleast posted, im sure many of us have used putty epoxy in construction of things before)
plumbing epoxy is generally the best value for the money as the tube is twice as big for the same $4-5
hm…
think gluing a old tv camera lens to my broken nikon camera would do anything? it lost the ability to prefocus after a fall(ironically, the lens is fine, its the damN button)
btw, i woulda made the epoxy bracket a little thicker, probably so it’d slip over and around the top of the camera, its fairly strong stuff but thin pieces will snap like a twig(of comparable thickness)