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Originally Posted by casstony
So I tried enlarging one of the tripod castings to fit the new stainless tubes but gave up as it seemed to take forever and it's not great for the drill - just refitted the original legs.
However, after buying a digital caliper and measuring the tubes I've found that the new tubes are out of round. One dimension is the same as the original tubes (~50.8) while measuring perpendicular to the pipe weld measures 51.3mm. So I'm going to use the bench grinder to take the 'wide sides' off the tubes and try again, the next time the mount is off the tripod.
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That's odd Tony, my tubes were round but the castings on the Synta tripod were out of round so a little bit of grinding of the 'sockets' sorted it. You could squeeze the tube a little in a vice
