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Subject: CF tubes was Re: [OM] Looking for tripod advice
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Gary Edwards wrote:

:Stock carbon fiber tubes are available commercially.  Trick is fitting locking
:collars.
:
:Acer Victoria wrote:
:
:> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Giles wrote:
:> :
:> :With you on that one.  John Gardner wants one also.  If they don't hurry up 
I may
:> :have to take a crack at it myself.
:> :
:> :Giles
:> :
:> :Jan Steinman wrote:
:> :
:> :> Patiently waiting for a carbon-fiber Benbo or UniLoc...
:>
:> What?! Roll your own CF tubes? Isn't that rather labor intensive and
:> require milling and rolling machinery?

Oh, didn't know they were available. The phrase "CF tube" conjured up the
image of Paul McCready <sp.?> el al. rolling custom tubes (and then
something about strong acid etching?) for each structural member of the
Gossamer Albatross....

/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
--
"Step by step / Easy and slow / On the stairway to heaven / What a way to
go / ... "                                              --Def Leppard


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