Not all plain sailing

I have a second hand mount so I inherited a whole set of problems, Crushed legs from over tightening heavy loads. You can't mistake the flat spots that are between the lines. I could not move the legs to adjust unless I used a 1 Kg hammer and as I wanted to lower the legs to the very bottom I had a major problem as it is much stronger to carry a heavy weight.



this is front leg totally not adjustable but for 1kg hammer and the two back legs some adjustment to level.

In the end I hit on the idea as its only for getting level I would cut the bad parts off. so what you see here are the new leg lengths and the position of the slider and lower foot. the line on the right is where I cut the legs to length as the above part of the leg is in shape and useable. I did all this when I got up and after I saw my wife go to work at 4:50 am in the morning. By 8am it was all done and fully assembled.

I was searching for a way to make the legs stronger as the stainless steel wall was only 1mm not really up to the job of carrying too much weight. I first looked for some plastic tubing I could put inside the legs when they were finally cut to length as I found nothing I had to then rethink next best. In the end I was able to find a wooden Dowell 35mm the fitted the space perfectly so I cut them to length hammered the in and the tired to reround the bottoms there the foot went. Both end of the tubes where sealed over with silicone so the wood would not get wet and set the wood into the tube with some glue as well.




I now have three legs that are round, adjustable, not going to crush and fully useable on the mount. the shorter leg is in the front the two longer legs are at the sides to get adjustment.