Repaired tripod LPL Tekno Boy 501

Broken tripod was bid by mistake at 1 yen and I got it with some disappointment. But, it did not take time a minute to come to the conclusion that some modification would save a tiny life to put Leica miniature ball head by making up 1/4 thread hall on it. 

It took a few minutes to scrape off the press spot and make a pilot hole, but it did not take any trouble to set up a tap on the aluminum alloy base. It goes without writing that the original broken and engineering plastic pan head was removed thoroughly replacing Leica miniature ball head.

Basically, plastic material deformes and cracks into fracture if continuous pressure is applied, so releasing all the stresses by screw tightening must be released and the stress should be applied only in the sceneries of actual use, this is the key to the long lives of plastic materials.

Now LPL Tekno Boy 501 tripod has no fragile plastic construction anymore instead mainframe work is formed only metallic material, so it will continue as long as my lifespan would last.