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05-23-2012, 01:02 PM
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I put some new wheels on and man oh man this is sooooo slick, a single finger can make this thing glide. I'm super impressed. I'm using thin PVC and thick, I find the thick stuff can be used on floors like grass and mud.
I think I've spent like 80 bucks on it. Knightly thanks so much for sharing that video, you are a legend man!
Last edited by dr stilly; 05-23-2012 at 01:05 PM.
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05-23-2012, 03:50 PM
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Glad you're happy with it  ... amazing what you can do with a little bit of time and some wood screws Next onto the crane?
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05-23-2012, 06:50 PM
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I took a look at the crane and I don't think I'm going to need such a large one for my next project but maybe in the future. Right now I'm just going to get a long piece of metal, drill some holes, attach to my tripod, camera head one end, counter wieghts the other. It should get mme to cieling hight which is all I need at the mo.
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05-23-2012, 10:59 PM
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Honestly, at that point, you're a cable away from having a crane... just extend the tripod mount upward, and extend the camera mount upward with a pivot on the long arm... then connect the cable on the "Mast" and the top of the camera mount exactly the same distance up from the pivots... you've got a crane (no pan and tilt head, but you can add that later).
It's just a parallelogram.
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05-24-2012, 06:32 AM
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Okay, I'm gonna start a build on a crane lol. For now here is the Dolly in action thus far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3kkF...ature=youtu.be
ps: not much of an artistic test, just raw unedited footage with audio from cam.
Last edited by dr stilly; 05-24-2012 at 06:35 AM.
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05-24-2012, 10:34 AM
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Nice and smooth!
Here's the thread where we're discussing crane designs... the first post is mine and has a video link to the how I made my crane video... there's a lot of good diagrams in that thread: http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=24872
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05-24-2012, 02:00 PM
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Wheels are critical. I have to upgrade mine. I bought what I could get cheap/on sale and they are too soft. Spend a lot of time rolling the bumps out. It cannot stay stationary for even 30 seconds with weight on it, must be rolled back and forth constantly.
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05-24-2012, 07:03 PM
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Yes, I changed the wheels for bigger (80mm), softer ones and had to make space for them but well worth it. They are pro wheels from 20 buck blades i found in an Oxfam store in Camden town. The wheels I had before were pure pants that gave the dolly a jolt on each rotation.
Last edited by dr stilly; 05-24-2012 at 07:05 PM.
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