Something exciting arrived through the post today.


There's loads of this stuff! Thank's very much Phil for sending it.

Degreased then stuck a little bit on each half of the spindle. Needed so little of it that that tube will probably last a long time.
I put a little sillicone rubber plug into the locking screw hole. Also added a nut to lock the screw itself. Forgot to take a photo of it though.
After a bit of fiddling I got the friction right so that it moved smoothly but didn't droop with the weight of the camera. I'll probably weld a counter weight onto the front of the thing at some point though.

Here's the whole tripod in front of the messiest corner of the garage. I'm saving cleaning that up till I've made what I want to fill the space with.
But the stuff really works great. Even just framing a still shot takes alot less fiddling on the vertical to get right since it's no longer jerking about. Hopefully i'll take some interesting video to show for it.