{"id":2957,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:18:16","slug":"back-to-work-on-the-universal-panoramic-and-tilting-head-tripod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/back-to-work-on-the-universal-panoramic-and-tilting-head-tripod\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work on the Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious bench space is this really wonderful Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod<\/a>. The pan head and one of the wooden legs were restored a few months back. Now I am working on remaking four of the twelve leg lock assemblies as they were hopelessly fused together and not repairable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leg locks are an ingenious arrangement of a steel hoop that fits around the wooden section of a tripod leg, and has attached to it, essentially, a screw and a nut. When the screw is turned, the nut squeezes the leg section together to lock it in place. The flaw in the design of these particular leg locks is that the screw and the nut are both made of brass, and when you use similar materials to interfit, it is usually just a matter of time before they become fused together because of dirt, corrosion, or both. To avoid this problem in the future, I will machine the replacement screw parts of these assemblies from steel and the nut section from brass. An unusual aspect of these particular parts is that they are left-hand threaded. Once I have machined the replacement parts for these four leg locks, this tripod will be complete and available to compliment a camera once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93,72,264],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restoration","tag-pan-tilt-head","tag-tripod","tag-universal-camera-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}