Ancient History 1974 CE

[ameerat42]

At last my old, simple tripod that I bought to complement my then new Minolta 303 has developed
another age-related condition - dried out spacer "rubber" to keep the legs in place...
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...and...
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About 20 years ago the other plastic knob and raising handle began to break, but the tilt lever knob is
still going...
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It can still stand quite steadily on its 3 original rubber feet
At this rate I expect I'll to get another 46 years out of it ...

[Mary Anne]

All the best for the next 46 years Am not that you would need it that long

[martycon]

Am you could have posted this to the "still alife" forum.

[ameerat42]

Ta, folks. Glad you picked it up, M A Marty, nah, I didn't want to waste any CC.
It's just something I realised today

[Geoff79]

Ah, I remember the days when I used to have some kind of rubber... or anything whatsoever, on the base of my tripod legs. Been a few decades now...