A Washer And Bolt DIY C-Loop
We have featured a few DIY versions of the C-loop system before, but I think that is the simplest one yet.
Photographer Rui Nelson Silva came up with this simple plate and bolt solution for a bottom-attached camera strap.
It is based around a small aluminum plate that you can make if you have the skill or buy a similar one at your local hardware store.
Parts
From left to right has showed in the photo
- 1/4'' bolt
- 1/4'' washer
- Recovered aluminium part
- 1,5mm thick aluminium plate (dimensions on CAD image)
- Rubber washer
Instructions:
Well, parts 1, 2 and 5 are basically self explanatory, but the recovered aluminium part is in fact different, this piece was basically recovered from a broken household appliance, but it can be easily replicated with a washer of the size of the big diameter and a small one that looks like a small ring.
In my point of view, taking a printed image to a hardware store is always the best way to go, because you can compare it with existing materials or simply ask to the employee of the section, what he have available that matches the things you want.
The aluminium plate, can be done in many ways but due the amount of holes, my advice is to simply go to for example to an aluminium window maker and ask for tinny bit of square tube from is on scrap and them do the holes first and finally cut it out with a small saw. (Carefully cutting and patience will be necessary)
Be careful to eliminate every sharp edge or your strap will be damage and your camera might fall. Then just put the pieces by the correct order, and put your camera strap on.
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Comments
I always feel a little misled
I always feel a little misled with article titles like this - the washer and bolt are the easy part... If I had the tooling and skills to fabricate my own version of the "recovered aluminium part" and the "1.5mm thick aluminium plate," I wouldn't need an article like this... and if Home Deopt/Lowes/etc. has something I could use in place of those two integral components, I'd like the part numbers please.
ummm...
I'm guessing that you built your Legos to look just like the box cover. Never mind. Just go buy the f'n product from Amazon.
Jeez. Harsh man. I have to
Jeez. Harsh man. I have to agree with PRHEND. The title says that it is made out of a bolt and washer. Truth is, the bolt and washer just hold on the main part which has to be fabricated, That's pretty misleading.
blunt maybe, not harsh
The title is simplistic and a tease. I suspect the author didn't make the title. Rui Nelson Silva gave us a detailed, documented and dimensioned plan but also suggested where to get the aluminum free. This is reverse engineering a manufactured part and the crucial component is one that he modified from his spare parts bin. Sorry. But that's DIY. The important parts of that are DO and YOURSELF. Frankly I think PRHEND was pretty harsh at Rui, whining that he wants part numbers. And I want the National Geographic photogs to show their exif data.
btw, that part is a bushing with a washer end. Googling that I found "washer bushing" and "shoulder bushing". The common T-nut is close but has threads on the inside that can screw things up.
The article title hooked me,
The article title hooked me, and after reading the article, I felt misled, so I left a comment stating so. I started my comment out with:
"I always feel a little misled with article titles like this"
It appears that you might actually agree with me, at least partially, since you started yours with:
"The title is simplistic and a tease."
If the article title had been something like, "How to fabricate your own C-Loop knock-off" or, "A DIY C-Loop" then I wouldn't have felt misled at all.
Yup.I agree-title is misleading
This reminds me of a scenario like "Come get your free car"You show up and they ask you why didn`t you bring the engine,wheels,etc...they have the shift knob for you though....
A couple of words on the title and article
First I'm happy to say that the build I've done has spawn a somewhat interest.
About the Title, well I haven't done it but in my opinion (meaning I respect everybody else opinion) it's not misleding at all, because nobody can believe that can do a DIY C-Loop with those two pieces alone (not even talk about image right there in the begining of the post). However it actually "hides" a bit the necessary expertise to create some of the parts, but again thats all properly explain in the article. But opinions are opinions.
On the article itself asking for the parts numbers is a bit harsh like PHREND did. Even if I had something remotely close to part numbers, it almost wouldn't do any good to anybody, since I live in Portugal, and stores like Home Depot,etc doesn't exist here, they have different names and suppliers, which mean, If I would give you the number 00002223365 and you ask it at home depot you probably be surprise and in fact completely misled.
Anyway, if anybody needs help in build this just ask me, if can help I would gladly do it.
on topic
thanks for the article. looks pretty simple. curious to where that 'recovered' piece came from. maybe i can jack it from one of my appliances.
how nice is the swivel? would you change anything?
Hi KRALOO, the recovered
Hi KRALOO, the recovered piece came from a broken expresso machine. If can't get anything similar, you can try to build it up with a to washers, a big thik one and a smaller one like a ring. The swivel is very good, but the only thing I would change is the paint I did later, it just goes way the swivel back and foward.
Hope I made sense, lol!
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