My workshop can be made nice and cozy with plenty of hot coffee on hand so that is my winter retreat. True photogs might say that is chickening out
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First project was repairing an ancient ballhead that came with my Benbo tripod and then making a new centre clamp screw with a 1/4 UNC stud to take a flash when the arm is used in the horizontal position ( good for macro ). I will take and post a pic later but enough to say the tripod currently has a huge bage of swarf hanging from it
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Next up is a little project to go with that, and was inadvertantly inspired by Andy's comment that each of his tripods has an Arca style QR plate. So I thought I would have a go at making one but instead of a locking screw I would go with a lever locking mechanism similar to the RRS job but if all goes well I should do it for around a tenner. Easy part was doing the sketch and that has taken 3 days. The hard part is now going to be the making, and I commited myself to not spend anything on tooling or materials. So it has to be made with what I have around. Just hope it works or it could be embarassing.
Don
PS : At least Duncan will know where I am when I am not on here. ...... ha, ha.