At 6:06 PM +0000 6/21/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:55:16 -0300
>From: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] someone very stupid broke the clamp of my Slik u212
>
>He was complaining he ought to pay $50 or $70 for some good chinese tripod.
>I showed my U212 for him to compare.
>He immediately, without asking, tried to open one of the leg clamps.
>The molded plastic broke along the metal axis of the clamp.
>I'm almost sueing him. Really. He IS a nasty person. He always was a nasty
>person, ever since I knew him.
>Back to the tripod, would epoxy fix it securely enough for some 10 years
>more? The clamp exerts quite a bit of pressure when opening/closing :-((
Epoxy won't work for such a thing. Basically, nothing works to fix a clamp, as
the stress is too high, as you suspected. If it were Bogen/Manfrotto, one can
get spare parts, but for Slik I don't know.
Where I come from, the stupid one just bought the tripod he broke. Get the
money, give him the fruit of his labors, and buy yourself a new tripod.
Joe Gwinn
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