March 2023 – Alan Mackenzie's Blog

Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 7

Working on the scanner top panel.

Cutting some plywood strips for the edges of top phone panel.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 6

Another day and back again to have another go at cutting another piece of Acrylic.

Yay… a nice clean, clear and unmarked piece of ‘Acrylic glass’ that will sit on top of the negative to stop it curling. This time I trimmed off two edges of the sheet to get away from where air and moisture had penetrated the edges drying out the adhesive backing. Same again hair dryer and where needed Tree Tree Oil.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 5

Making the scanner frame holder that will contain the actual negative.

Measure, mark and drill corner holes to insert the scroll saw blade.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 4

From the last session continue making the scanner box.

The boards are tongue & groove and we don’t want the groove on the bottom boards so trimmed them off on the 8″ sliding miter saw and here we are planning the bottom edges and checking they are all the same width.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 3

The scanner box will have rectangular slots on either side. The sliding carrier will be inserted from the right side – something like that.

Start with some scrap 3mm MDF.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 2

Making a start building the box with no planning or sketch drawing. I figure however it turns out it needs a base so let’s jump in without dipping a toe.

Found a scrap of MDF that will just be large enough.

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Kodak Negative Scanner – Part 1

A few years ago most of our family did the DNA Kit thing with Ancestry_com. When the results came back there was lots of fun and laughter. Well I’m back now (last month) doing the full thing, The Mackenzie Tree is well established and growing nicely. Inevitably this leads to searching for family photos, no issues there everything is stored in one particular spot. I also found another shoebox (OXFORD SHOES) at the bottom of the wall unit in my study.