Re: [Leica] Off topic - Bogen tripod part needed

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

There are a lot of professional photo suppliers. I'm sure that at least one
will have this part. Try all of the biggies, B&H, Adolph Gasser, Calumet,
Keeble & Shuchat, etc... then smaller local stores.

Jim


At 08:41 PM 3/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>LUGs,
>
>For a 12 year old Bogen 3221 tripod, I need the little lever for the 
>shaft that locks the center column in place.  This lever has an 
>integrated hex wrench for disassembling the center column, tightening 
>the leg collars etc.  Bogen itself has redesigned this particular 
>assembly while keeping the original part number with the consequence 
>that the new replacement will not work with an older tripod.  The 
>part I need is no longer available from Bogen.
>
>Please email me privately if you've got a spare you'd like to dispose 
>of.
>
>Let me hasten to add before I'm bound in black tape and pelted with 
>red dots that I lost the lever while moving the tripod and attached 
>APO-Televid around the shore of a nearby lake in a  quest for 
>one of the two white-fronted geese reported seen among the thousand 
>or so Canadas.
>
>Roy
>   Roy C. Zartarian
>   http://www.connix.com/~royzart
>   "A prophet is not without honor except in his
>    own land and among his own people"
>
>Written with the assistance of a labrador retriever whose chin is on the
key board. All typos are his fault. 
>