Hello,
I am assembling my first 4x5 kit, and I just bought a manfrotto 055 tripod. It's great except for one thing - there's some play where the tripod mounting plate connects to the center column. This is annoying as it lets the lets the tripod head & camera rotate fairly easily when force is applied to the pan/tilt handles.
The first picture shows where it's rotating if you can't picture it.
I could just glue it in place, but I feel like there's a way to tighten. Looking down the upside-down center column (2nd picture) I can see that there's a nut attached to a bolt, then a plate or washer (sorry, I'm not very mechanically literate). If I can find a long enough socket would tightening that nut have any effect? Or is there another way to do it (it would have to be a damn long socket, not one you can find in your standard set)?
My other alternative would be to do away with the center column entirely and replace it with a 3/8 bolt and washer, but I'd like to keep the center column for small adjustments.
Thanks for your help!
Theo
PS Good thing I also bought a tiltall- it's one of the Star-D ones but looks/feels exactly the same.
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