I’m making myself do more repair/maintenance these days partly because I think the world needs to return to a repair over replace ethos, partly for fun (replacing the sleeve is the best move here, and replacing the tripod is probably what’s actually possible)
The telescoping mid-leg sleeve has the same fastening system as dies the foot, which I now notice has a crack too.pic.twitter.com/DtH8CaL1XC
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Anyway, alls well that ends well and I now own a spare telescoping stainless steel leg. Which I need to use in a new project. Suggestions welcome.
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Interesting, so they *could* have sent me just a new sleeve, but I’d have had to use a drill (which I own) and rivet tool (which I don’t) to finish the repair, which makes the tradeoff more complex.https://twitter.com/d_a_keldsen/status/1311785887924129792 …
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I’d have saved some steel tubing and plastic but I’d have to have access to more tooling and possessed/learned an extra skill (pop-riveting). Think I’ll work out the dollar and carbon math here. Interesting problem.
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Any guesses?
Only thing I can think of is some sort of long tool that inserts the pin from the other end of the tube.