Liquidfyre style through-wall camera mount

[OhioFlyer]

Says Out of Stock for me....

Still in stock for me but it may be showing OOS based on the seller not shipping to AUS. That's my best guess at least.

 

[OzHybrid]

You can use a "normal" (second-surface) mirror and a bit of paint remover, and *make* a first surface mirror. I'd like to say I thought of this, but K'Tesh told me.

Which brand of remover removes the paint and not the aluminium face? Just so I don't choose the wrong one...

 

[Sooner Boomer]

A solvent-based remover, rather than a caustic type paint stripper. Something like lacquer thinner, MEK, toluene, or limonene-based stripper. I don't know what brands you have available. Klean Strip is a brand here. The fumes can be bad, so avoid them as much as possible and/or wear a respirator with an organic vapor filter.

 

[jkovac]

Reviving this thread to see if anyone has made any progress on a downward-facing camera/lens mount with minimal external exposure. Dan, I would definitely buy the stuff in your photos if you were willing to sell it.

 

[Bungie64]

Unfortunately, no... between my hy2 brid development work and now buying an ambulance that I want to convert over for rocket transport/workspace andwanted working on a what I think is a fairly revolutionary hybrid launch system, I just haven't had the time to work on the camera... unfortunately, because of this whole homebuilt hybrid thing, I haven't been able to get a camera in the air... but, I do have hopes that one way or another I can get it in the air and see if I am happy with it so I feel good about someoneone else buying it.

Seems like this tread has gone cold but i'd love to know if you ever complete this project. I have 2 Runcam2 4k cameras and 2 matecam808 120° cameras. I wanted a liquidfyre camera shroud and talked with the owner right about the time he stopped producing them. I would certainly take a shroud or 2 for my 4" diameter rockets. I have an Additive Aerospace shroud but as previously mentioned they are rather bulky.

 

[jkovac]

Seems like this tread has gone cold

Yes. I was ruined by the beautiful LiquidFyre stuff in 54mm, but it looks like a commercial (or at least made by a fellow hobbyist more skilled than me) option for larger near-MD rockets is not going to happen. I’ve messed around a bit with cast acrylic tubing but haven’t flown it, not sure what will happen to it at high speeds. The mirrors idea sounds interesting but I haven’t seen photos of an actual example, not sure if it puts less outside the airframe than a small lens would. And on the lens outside the airframe approach, it looks to me like the lens module from the RunCam 2 when removed from the camera body is smaller than the lens heads on their split cams. I think I’m going to try to get a cable that will work, and if I can, I will try mounting a cabled RCII 4K lens pointed down on the av bay, and build a small shroud for it.