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Rather than use a plate on the bottom with a captured thread and rubber surface.It would probably be stronger and certainly far easier to shape and weld on a layer of plastic, to form a camera plate, to fit a Swiss type QR. It would also have none of the thread stripping or thread insert problems and weaknesses. Ant also no tendency to rotate.
I have done it with a shaped piece of thick brown circuit board material. You can also put a strong fine thread into that material, so it could easily be screwed on for belt and braces security.
But it would be easy to satisfy yourself that your acrylic sheet would be easily strong enough. Dovetail clamping is mostly compression and so is incredibly strong in almost any solid material.
If you really must have a screw mount. You could always fix one in the centre of the Swiss type plate you make.
for the rare occasions you might want to mount that way.
I have done it with a shaped piece of thick brown circuit board material. You can also put a strong fine thread into that material, so it could easily be screwed on for belt and braces security.
But it would be easy to satisfy yourself that your acrylic sheet would be easily strong enough. Dovetail clamping is mostly compression and so is incredibly strong in almost any solid material.
If you really must have a screw mount. You could always fix one in the centre of the Swiss type plate you make.
for the rare occasions you might want to mount that way.
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