DIY Handle for the PT-15

[herman]

I had recently gotten a new camera and housing but am waiting to purchase a strobe later. While I like the PT-15 housing, it is a little awkward to hold on to and I wanted some form of handle. I also wanted to wait until I was ready to purchase the strobe before inverting in a tray so here is my solution to the problem. This DIY tray is simple, cheap and I justed tested it out on a week long trip to Bonaire. It's not too pretty but it does a nice job for the $10 or so I have in it. The "tray" part is a 7 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 inch piece of scrap lexan, all of the other parts are SS, aluminum or brass purchased at a local Lowes. The thunb screw and weight are the ones that come with the PT-15.

 

[Gilligan]

Great idea. I used a tray/handle with my PT-010 right from the start, also w/o a strobe. It makes the housing a lot easier to handle.

 

[Dee]

Nice job, Herman. Where did you get the Lexan, at Lowes? I was asking for Plexiglass at our local Lowe's but all they had was very thin stuff. I have a project in mind and need the same stuff you used.

 

[herman]

I actually have no idea where the Lexan came from... I am a huge packrat and when I find trash pieces of "I bet I have a use for that" stuff I pack it away. You might try looking up plastics in the local phone book. I know we have a local dealer that stocks a lot of sheet and rod plastic.

 

[Lat. Adjustment]

Thanks, I've been wanting to add a tray to mount my NiteRider light head on so they are both on one handle.

 

[Scubamedicjoe]

hey Herman once again you getting creative sometime you scare me LOL!!!
Great job !!put patent on it hurry looks great I Have my strobe ordered due to be hear middle of week .

 

[herman]

Joe,
Have you seen my thread on the Smart media I messed up? If you are using any of it, be careful because you can accidently format it so that it will not work with your camera. So far I have not been able to fix the problem.

Lat Adj, I see no reason that the tray could not be extended to handle most anything within reason. The only problem I ran into was some types of plastics (plexaglass it think it was) was not quite stiff enough to do the job but the Lexan seemed to be fine. It flexes a little but not enough to be a problem.