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I just finished a prototype of a Poor man's LED alignment tools and it works beautifully!! It is nothing extraordinary but thought to post a description for the sake of those that like me are looking for a cheap way to align their enlarger. Took a piece of plywood 1/8"x5"x5", made a 1/2" hole at its center and 4 holes 1.5" from the center and equidistant from each other, these holes were just big enough to allow the insertion of 4 standard LED's (one in each hole), the LEDs were series connected, a 50 resistor was added to the circuit to limit the current and LEDS+resistor fed by a 9volts battery. The configuration of holes of the piece of wood was replicated at the end side on one of the mirrors, holes were not made on the mirror, instead its backing was scrapped. The piece of wood with the circuit was glued onto the mirror. I happened to have the prism of my defunct very first SLR (Minolta XG2), I placed this prism on the center hole of the piece of wood and can see very clearly the alignment dots-cross pattern thru the prism. A prism is not absolutely necessary, one can peek from above the mirror and thru its center hole, but a prism make the alignment so much easier. A prism can be easily obtained from a defunct SLR camera, eBay lists many broken SLRs going for very little money. Edmund Sci. has a right angle prism for about $10, this place also sells surplus prisms http://www.anchoroptics.com/ Guillermo
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