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Adding spiked feet to tripod
I'd like to add surveyor style spiked feet to a Gitzo G506 tripod. I do
have a surveyor's tripod that I use. The cam leg locks and the spiked feet are very nice, but it's not very compact, and it's a real pain shooting fairly low to the ground, which I do fairly often. I recently acquired a very nice Gitzo G506 Performance Compact tripod. Unfortunately, Gitzo says that there are no auxillery spiked feet for it. Hence, I'd like to make (or have made) my own. I'd like the feet to have good sized spikes which are easy to remove from the tripod, and which down't damage the tripod when the spikes are put on and taken off. Has anyone done or seen something similar? -Peter De Smidt PS No, I don't want to buy a different tripod. |
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Adding spiked feet to tripod
Find a good machinist and have him or her manufacture up some clamp-on
spikes. I'm envisioning something that slips over the end of the existing tripod legs, perhaps using some sort of set screw to hold it on. They won't be cheap but they could be pretty neat to use. Use stainless steel for the spikes and maybe anodised aluminum for the clamps, then you can submerge the legs in water without fear of rust. John Emmons "Peter De Smidt" pdesmidt*no*spam*@tds.*net* wrote in message ... I'd like to add surveyor style spiked feet to a Gitzo G506 tripod. I do have a surveyor's tripod that I use. The cam leg locks and the spiked feet are very nice, but it's not very compact, and it's a real pain shooting fairly low to the ground, which I do fairly often. I recently acquired a very nice Gitzo G506 Performance Compact tripod. Unfortunately, Gitzo says that there are no auxillery spiked feet for it. Hence, I'd like to make (or have made) my own. I'd like the feet to have good sized spikes which are easy to remove from the tripod, and which down't damage the tripod when the spikes are put on and taken off. Has anyone done or seen something similar? -Peter De Smidt PS No, I don't want to buy a different tripod. |
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Peter De Smidt pdesmidt*no*spam*@tds.*net* wrote: I'd like to add surveyor style spiked feet to a Gitzo G506 tripod. I do have a surveyor's tripod that I use. The cam leg locks and the spiked feet are very nice, but it's not very compact, and it's a real pain shooting fairly low to the ground, which I do fairly often. I recently acquired a very nice Gitzo G506 Performance Compact tripod. Unfortunately, Gitzo says that there are no auxillery spiked feet for it. Hence, I'd like to make (or have made) my own. I'd like the feet to have good sized spikes which are easy to remove from the tripod, and which down't damage the tripod when the spikes are put on and taken off. Has anyone done or seen something similar? -Peter De Smidt PS No, I don't want to buy a different tripod. Does the tripod have some kind of pad on the feet now? My Bogan and my Ries both had rubber pads The bogan had retractable screws that had a spike, and the Ries has reversable legs with a spike on one end and the pad on the other,.....if yours have a pad thats screwed on why not unscrew the pad and screw in a sharpened longer "screw". -- Baltimore & DC Large Format User Website http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank For best results expand this window at least 6" at 1152 x 768 resolution |
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Adding spiked feet to tripod
Gregory W Blank wrote:
Does the tripod have some kind of pad on the feet now? My Bogan and my Ries both had rubber pads The bogan had retractable screws that had a spike, and the Ries has reversable legs with a spike on one end and the pad on the other,.....if yours have a pad thats screwed on why not unscrew the pad and screw in a sharpened longer "screw". Hi, I'm afraid that my tripod does not have a pad that screwed onto the bottom of the leg. In the first place I tried unsuccessfully to remove the hard plastic feet, and in the second place Gitzo said that they are not meant to come off on my model. It was a good suggestion, though. -Peter |
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"Peter De Smidt" pdesmidt*no*spam*@tds.*net* wrote in message ... I'd like to add surveyor style spiked feet to a Gitzo G506 tripod. I do have a surveyor's tripod that I use. The cam leg locks and the spiked feet are very nice, but it's not very compact, and it's a real pain shooting fairly low to the ground, which I do fairly often. I recently acquired a very nice Gitzo G506 Performance Compact tripod. Unfortunately, Gitzo says that there are no auxillery spiked feet for it. Hence, I'd like to make (or have made) my own. I'd like the feet to have good sized spikes which are easy to remove from the tripod, and which down't damage the tripod when the spikes are put on and taken off. Has anyone done or seen something similar? -Peter De Smidt PS No, I don't want to buy a different tripod. It seems to me that you could make adaptors out of copper or other tubing of the right diameter to fit over the tripod feet. These would have the spike fastened to the end or, perhaps, simply squeeze the ends down to form spikes. They would just slide on or off. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Adding spiked feet to tripod
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Peter De Smidt pdesmidt*no*spam*@tds.*net* wrote: I'd like to add surveyor style spiked feet to a Gitzo G506 tripod. I do have a surveyor's tripod that I use. The cam leg locks and the spiked feet are very nice, but it's not very compact, and it's a real pain shooting fairly low to the ground, which I do fairly often. I recently acquired a very nice Gitzo G506 Performance Compact tripod. Unfortunately, Gitzo says that there are no auxillery spiked feet for it. Hence, I'd like to make (or have made) my own. I'd like the feet to have good sized spikes which are easy to remove from the tripod, and which down't damage the tripod when the spikes are put on and taken off. Has anyone done or seen something similar? -Peter De Smidt PS No, I don't want to buy a different tripod. If your feet screw-on the Giotto's spike feet may fit. -- To reply no_ HPMarketing Corp. |
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Adding spiked feet to tripod
Bob Salomon wrote:
If your feet screw-on the Giotto's spike feet may fit. They don't seem to screw on, and I'm hesitant to apply too much force. It's a Gitzo Tele Studex tripod, which came out right before Gitzo's move to MK. II status. Has anyone taken the hard plastic feet off of a Gitzo of this vintage? -Peter |
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