{"id":8449,"date":"2012-02-18T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T04:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jbhphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2023-07-16T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:12:05","slug":"reworking-my-ries-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jbhphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/reworking-my-ries-a-model\/","title":{"rendered":"REWORKING MY RIES \u2018A\u2019 MODEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is really great to be able to fix, repair, and restore your equipment yourself.\u00a0 I have always been a doer. . . I like to maintain and work on my own equipment when I can.\u00a0 On our last trip to Utah I noticed that my very old and trusty Ries \u2018A\u2019 Model tripod was beginning to show signs of use.\u00a0 I have no idea how old this one is, but I would guess it was manufactured in the late 1970\u2019s or so.\u00a0 I have had it for years and it was no where new when I purchased it.\u00a0 The legs have taken a beating, needed a little work and a refinish.\u00a0 The top crown paint was chipped and peeling and the previous owner had not used a friction washer between the head and the crown, so the crown top was pretty scared up and needed some attention also.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0What I had in mind was a complete strip down of every part of the tripod, remove all old paint and finish, repair dings and dents as best as possible, refinish everything, then reassemble.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that hard to dissemble a Ries tripod.\u00a0 Take care not to damage anything and maybe take a few quick snapshots before you start, just in case you don\u2019t remember exactly how it all fits back together.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0I completely disassembled the legs, removing all of the hardware so I could sand and refinish the wooden legs.\u00a0 The most difficult things to remove are the drive pins that hold the leg locking rods to the underside of the crown and leg swivel guides.\u00a0 An appropriate size punch makes short work of the pins and an arbor press takes care of the guides.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0At this point I have the entire tripod completely disassembled.\u00a0 With the application of a little elbow grease, I completely sanded down all of the wooden leg parts, smoothed over the dings, scrapes, and dents, and shot three coats of spar varnish on all six upper and three lower legs.\u00a0 Next I stripped the old paint from the tripod crown.\u00a0 Took a few tries and some scrubbing with a brush, but soon I had nothing but bare aluminum.\u00a0\u00a0 Since the crown top surface was scored, I chucked the head in the lathe and resurfaced the top.\u00a0 Next came a fresh coat of black self-etching primer and a bake in the sun for a day.\u00a0\u00a0 There is nothing like a day or two in the Texas sun to really cure paint. . . even in winter.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0The leg swivel guides did not fare well being removed from the crown, so I machined a new set.\u00a0 Once I had the new guides pressed into the crown I also made a new set of friction washers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0At this point it was just a matter of cleaning up a few odd parts and reassembly of the entire tripod.\u00a0 I did not need to do any work on the A250 head since it is much newer than the legs so it was only a matter of adjusting the leg tension and my tripod was ready for action.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0That is the entire process in a nutshell.\u00a0 The tripod, though it will never look factory new, is now ready for another trip.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JB<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is really great to be able to fix, repair, and restore your equipment yourself.\u00a0 I have always been a doer. . . 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