On Mon, February 7, 2011 09:07, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Well I have a drill press and tools so what I was planning to do is drill > the hole directly into the body cap, but don't know if I can find a bit > that small after hearing the discussions. Taking it into the body cap > would give a good clean hole that wouldn't tear up every time you threw it > into a bag like aluminum foil would. Anything paper, ect would be > destroyed the first time you tossed it in the camera bag. I was hoping > for something durable enough that it could bounce around, be abused by > banging into other stuff in a camera bag, and still be totally functional. The classic method is to indent a brass shim with a needle, and then sand off the dent on the back, making a very small hole (less than needle diameter) with relatively smooth edges (using 1000-grit paper or some such). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
