[LargeFormat] re tripods

[john frost]

I presume that explains why you use a 5x7 handheld....

john (:>)) you shoulda seen what the Snow Geese did to me last month!!

Ole Tjugen wrote:
> 
> 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>
> =====
> >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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