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not having a good day broken tri pod leg

Daniel-K

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Daniel-K

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has any one ever experienced a broken tri pod leg.

my heq5 pro has been set up in the kitchen and ive just gone to take it down and the leg has just sheered off at the top were the bolt goes through...what do i do???

were do i get just a tri pod from??

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Tim

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Hmm, I have a spare EQ6 tripod available, but I dont think that helps you. Mine is spare because the mount is now on a permanent pier, so maybe somebody has done the same with a heq5???

Other than that, have a word with James from FLO, see if they can help at all.

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has any one ever experienced a broken tri pod leg.

my heq5 pro has been set up in the kitchen and ive just gone to take it down and the leg has just sheered off at the top were the bolt goes through...what do i do???

were do i get just a tri pod from??

good thing it happened with no scope on I suppose.

can you upload a pic? might be better to suggest something.

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Daniel-K

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Hmm, I have a spare EQ6 tripod available, but I dont think that helps you. Mine is spare because the mount is now on a permanent pier, so maybe somebody has done the same with a heq5???

is the screw thred the same for mount? the bit that goes through the tripod plate and up into the mount?

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smudgeball

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If it's any consolation, I popped out last night just with my DSLR to take some pics of the moon and snapped off the lower locking lever on my tripod.

To be fair I've had the thing over twenty years.

Hope you get yours fixed soon

Neil

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Daniel-K

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it started juddering during last nights session so i brough it in and set it up inside to see what was wrong and it stoped juddering so i took the ota off and went to bed went to work came hoe went to fold down the legs and EL SNAPO DE LEGO cam off at least i caught the actual mount though!

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Of course, but for less than a fiver you can glue it and test it with as much force as you like without any other bits attached, you can only open the break you already have, and if it does hold, then great, but if it doesn't, its only a fiver gambled.

The EQ6 tripod I have may or may not work, I have some adaptors as well you see. If you can wait till tomorrow night when I get home from work I can test the theory, I have a heq5 mount too.

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Of course, but for less than a fiver you can glue it and test it with as much force as you like without any other bits attached, you can only open the break you already have, and if it does hold, then great, but if it doesn't, its only a fiver gambled.

The EQ6 tripod I have may or may not work, I have some adaptors as well you see. If you can wait till tomorrow night when I get home from work I can test the theory, I have a heq5 mount too.

yes tj i can wait that would be great

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