Polaroid 405 Dark Slide NEEDED!

<p>Can't seem to find the dark slide for my Polaroid 405 holder (stupid, i know!). Anyways, I'm looking for some advice from others who may have had a similar problem. Any place to find a legitimate replacement? Any other dark-slides (for other holders) functionally compatible? Please let me know what you recommend. And building one myself isn't exacly my preference, but if you have something worthy of adding, I'd love to hear. Many thanks ahead of time.</p>

 

<p >Hi: </p>

<p >I’m not sure of the material you need, but I wanted to have a specialty dark slide made for an 8x10 holder. I live in San Diego and there is a company here called Ridout Plastics (www.ridoutplastics.com). They deal with people from all over, so if you contact them that can probably fabricate a dark slide for you. All I needed to do was give them dimensions (length x width x thickness) along with rounded corner data, and specified a 0% opaque black plastic, and they cut one up for me. For mine, which was a half dark slide to shoot two 4x10 images on my 8x10 film, it ended up costing me about $12.00.</p>

<p >Hope this helps.</p>

<p >Brian</p>

<p>Thanks Brian, that is very helpful! Can anyone give exact dimensions on a 405 darkslide? Or know where dimensions might be listed on a website? </p>

<p>Hi Ben, I hope this helps.<br>

Best</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks Rodrigo! Brian, do you remember what the thickness of the plastic was? The thickness of a credit card or less?</p>

<p>Ben:<br>

My plastic slide measures .032" in thickness. I also have a metal slide, and it measures .031". I don't know why there is a variation. If I were you, I would get a small lump of clay, and push it into the groove where the dark slide goes, and then carefully measure it's thickness with a micrometer (or other thickness gauge). I would probably take off a few thousandths of an inch just for a little clearance.<br>

Brian</p>