"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
nice Al!, still using your custom made FPU system? Ours is kicking ass too..we only move the micros if someone got lazy lining up the films...
Quote from: Homer on June 05, 2014, 10:21:24 AMnice Al!, still using your custom made FPU system? Ours is kicking ass too..we only move the micros if someone got lazy lining up the films... I call it the modified Triloc so too much credit would be given to me to call it a custom made unit. I'd really love it if M&R would fabricate this system and call it the Triloc Duece because after using it for several years now there is no doubt in my mind that it is a great design and it's tested. I know the original Triloc is loved by many and M&R is damn proud of it, but I've used this version and the original and you couldn't pay me to go back to carrier sheets and putting the master frame on the expo unit. I also feel that it is significantly more accurate because although we didn't become experts in using the triloc as intended we don't have to do near as much work with the micros using this version. With M&R's ability to manufacture anything to a high level they could make a prototype of this system in half of a day with the team they have and be shipping them out to customers by next week. And I mean getting it done from a sketch drawing by their design team, to the prototype, to the final product approved by the suits by tomorrow afternoon. It's just the master frame flipped upside down and raised up a few inches with a grid in the middle. A few minor tweaks to the master frame to allow the frame to fit in easier. Mine looks like a child built it because I was trying to build a prototype and then go back and make look all pretty but it just worked great the way it was and I never bothered making it look better.
I think I did at one time but I seem to remember it wasn't the final version as it sits now. I'm embarrassed to show it since it looks so shoddy but I can do something to show how I modified it if people are interested. I believe there are several guys doing the same thing or something very close to what I did and I gathered ideas from all over the place and copied a lot of things to make ours.