So bummed we never had a chance to ride it. Looks like a lot of fun.

It's a generic one from Amazon, but required some parts from mcmaster-carr to get it to fit the t-slot on the sherline

Amazon. It's just a generic quick change setup. We had it on the manual mini-lathe so I borrowed it for this. It only has a single screw to bolt it down. You'll need to get a rectangular nut (mcmaster sells them) that fits the t-slot of the cross slide and you can bolt it down to that. We also had to buy some aluminum spacers (mcmaster again), and wrap them with some metal shim tape, to get them to fit tightly down the center of the tool post. And lastly, an appropriately sized bolt (again, mcmaster). We haven't done it yet but this will require an additional piece: there are two t-slots in the cross slide, and you'll need to bolt down a rectangular block on one side of the tool post, to keep it from spinning. If there's too much torque it can cause the tool post to spin on the central mounting bolt. so there needs to be something to prevent that.

@@GammaRayDigital Thank you. Off to research it...

@@GammaRayDigital Thank you, sir. I have been amazed so far about how many, different brands are out there right now that supply mini-lathes like this smaller lathe I own.

The headstock shaft is 9/16" and we couldn't find a pulley to fit. So it had to be drilled out on a drill press, which is less than ideal. Once the machine is finished the first order of business is boring out another pulley to 9/16" so it's not so wobbly.

@@GammaRayDigital yep , when the lathe is down its impossible to repair the lathe , been there before/

Such rubbish!

Your observations are correct, sort of. Laver and Newcombe did indeed play the style of game of a Club County or College player of the time. But at an extremely higher level of speed accuracy and consistency. These two players plus Tony Roche and Ken Rosewall were the top four seeds at the first US Open played the week before this match. Therefore arguably the best four players in the world. This style of play guaranteed a higher win percentage on the lawn courts of the Australian British and US majors and all the lead in and lead out tournaments. The skill set required high competency on every stroke from the serve to off the ground and in the air from the backcourt to the midcourt to the frontcourt. It was played fast at close quarters. 80% plus of play was played inside the court. Intuitive reactionary tennis.

@@markmurray7043 Noted and agreed. I guess the number of what look like fairly easy errors when watching old clips of these guys is accounted for by the fact that it was reactionary tennis.There's a KZbin video of a very young Borg easily beating an admittedly well past his best Laver, he couldn't cope with Borg's game.Equally a 44 year old Gonzalez beat the young Jimmy Connors in the final of a the LA tournament in 1971. Gonzalez was though I think a considerable cut above those sturdy, rather dour, Aussies.

​@@jeremyd1021How have you become such an utter drongo?

You don't know what you're talking about.

Laver won in straight sets. No tiebreaks. The shot of the scoreboard shows Laver leading 2 sets to love but down 67 in the third. Laver takes the next three games to win 64 64 97.

Sorry - never got a notification of this question! We are using the 14k Vieworks camera, yes. The sensor is mono, and the light source is LED. There are two red (one for print and one for negative), green, blue and IR LED arrays, and the softare you see here can control all of those individually. The idea is that you take three images, one with red, one green, one blue, and then combine them into a color image. Same idea as the Arriscan, Director, and Xena scanners.

@@GammaRayDigital amazing. Thanks for the detailed response. That explains the need for motor tuning, if you’ll be “parking” every frame for stationary acquisition. I actually built a similar system for photographic purposes, but it uses a 160x160mm mechanical scanning stage and a much smaller 1” sensor(got a deal on it second hand). I can scan photographic film up to 4x5“ at 6600DPI. It also didn’t occur to me to use 2 different reds. I just have 660nm. I would love to see a detailed rundown of this machine once you get it to a state you are happy with.

We don't have any of these. This belonged to one of our employees and is now part of the collection at the Library of Congress. They may have it though.

We'll let you know. It's still a ways off. B/W 4-perf 35mm is first, color will come later.

Sorry - it's been so long I can't really remember how it was wired. I think it was one pulse and one dir, and there may have also been one for a motor lock, or possibly for an error response from the driver back to the Arduino. We used a Mega, not a Nano, and (at the time) a third party stepper motor library to handle ramping the speeds up and down. Don't do much with arduino these days, so maybe that part is built in now?

Home movies were mostly silent. Sound wasn't introduced to an 8mm format (Super 8) until the 1970s (Though it was possible, if uncommon, to add sound afterwards by applying a magnetic soundtrack to the edge, even on Regular 8mm film. That's pretty rare though.)

This is a silent film. Home movie footage at this time was silent.

Could Stoneface have been Dick Delphia?

My friend Tony Pastore, who passed away a few years ago, would’ve been about 12 years old when this was filmed. It’s crazy to think that someone I knew would’ve seen this construction first-hand. I’m only 42 but he was in his 90s when he passed. He once mentioned, about two years before he died, that his mother was born in 1883. I was flabbergasted when he said that. I was born in 1981. -Cheers from Pittsfield