[LargeFormat] re tripods

[Ole Tjugen]

This looks remarkably like a description of a Stabil tripod - I suggest you 
take a look at www.stabil.nu to see how they're made. The lower legs on mine 
are aluminium tubes, with a nice little cupshaped plate on the bottom. That is 
the big tripod; I have a "baby" as well...

Ole


>===== Original Message From "philip.lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com> 
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>I would be glad of some practical advice how to update an early tripod
>unpacked this morning (ebay), whose legs each consist of a pair of oak laths
>bracketed together, pivoted at the top beside the tripod bush and clamped at
>the foot to retain the sliding lower legs.  At first I thought the latter
>were made from straight beech but when I put my glasses on I found they were
>made of rusting recycled Iron-age spears 5/8" diameter, 30" long and quite
>nasty at one end but rubbery at the other.
>The point on which advice is sought is whether I can replace this old iron
>with wooden 5/8" dowel or ramin, lighter and longer than the originals.
>This, if it works, would give me a higher tripod and lighter.  There is no
>central column, just a jammed pan and tilt head easily replaced by one of my
>Manfrotto doorstops.
>If wood works for the lower leg, what do I make the bottom ferrule out of?
>Should I use a brass round screw head or would a point make a better job?
>If so, how would I contrive one?
>Thank you for your support. Philip
>
>Even Uncle Dick's  bush-dentist tips would be considered.........
>
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