Jerome: This happened to me on a different tripod & I had to take it to the camera shop to have someone tighten the lever screws. Also, I don't know about your tripod, but it turned out I had a little plastic screw driver gizmo that was attached to my tripod leg, which I can now use (now that I'm aware that it's there) to tighten lever screws. I have one of those tripods from Calumet Photo, not a fancy name brand, but maybe since you have levers, this might fix your problem. My problem is now fixed. Haven't had any problems. HTH. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:36 PM Subject: Help Needed: Sliding Bogen tripod legs > Set up in question: Bogen 3036 tripod with the 400mm f2.8 lens. > > Problem: I'll set it up, lock all the levers, and 4 seconds later the > tripod starts to sink to one side. Whats happening is that the leg > sections are starting to slide and collapse into each other despite all of > the locks being tightly secured. On the lighter tripod I use for hiking > (3221) I can tighten things up with the hexagon shaped thingamajig and I'm > back in business, but that doesn't seem to work for the 3036. The latter > tripod seems to use more of a hydraulic system for controlling the legs > rather than just the screw-and-hold system of the former. So does this > mean that the hydraulics are just shot and I'm outta luck? > > I tried a Google search but maybe I'm not using the right terms. I've also > sent an email to Manfrotto, but I thought I'd ask here while I wait for a > response. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
