I just read the best tip for storing tripods! The advice comes from Steven Cortez, Blue Valley West HS, Overland Park, Kansas. Those of you that have tripods to store check it out.Solution: Go to the local hardware store. You’re looking for 6" sewer pipe for most tripods. Larger tripods may take 8” or more. Each tube will hold the folded tripod safely without bumping and breaking into another tripod, Cut the tubes on a table saw (your industrial technology teacher can help) about 16-18" inches long depending on your tripod, then make a box with a 4" lip on the bottom so the tubes will slant upwards, your box can vary in size to the number of tripods you have. I numbered each tube, and engraved the same number on each tripod, I also have my cameras numbered. So when a student checks out camera #5 (they sign out the camera in another system I will share later) he takes tripod #5 and so on. I can tell at-a-glance from the number of tripods missing how many cameras are checked out. (No camera can be checked out w/o a tripod. It really helps me keep track of equipment.)
I'm sure you adapt the plans to fit any number of tripods. Thanks for the advice Steven!
Cortez, S. (October 2008). Tripod Storage Solved! High School Broadcast Journalism Project. Retrieved on February 20, 2009 from http://hsbj.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23
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This reminds me of when I bought several feet of plastic rain gutter to put along the walls of my video studio to use it as a place to lay all of the excess cables running between the cameras and control center. We're all DYI innovators at heart.
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