Luminous Landscape Forum

Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: francois on August 12, 2005, 03:43:25 am

Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: francois on August 12, 2005, 03:43:25 am
Some info on unlocking can be found here (http://www.precisioncameraworks.com/Pages/monoball_core.html#anchorattent). You can also find information in the Really Right Stuff catalog or website at this address (http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/index.html).

Mine locked up twice and I was always able to unlock it using the above techniques.

Let us know if you managed to unlock it.
Good luck
Francois
Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: Spencer on August 12, 2005, 04:50:14 am
Thanks! I'll check these out and hope they work!

Best,
Spencer
Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: francois on August 13, 2005, 05:36:34 am
Quote
Precision camera in Chicago  works on the b1 If you need service contact them
847-430-8088.
I mentioned the PC website in my first link  :D
So if your B1 needs repairs, contact them.

Francois
Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: Spencer on August 11, 2005, 11:17:19 pm
Hello,

I have read over the years that the B1 can lock-up. I never paid much attention since mine never had any troubles, until now. I was shooting the National Day parade here in Singapore and my tension knob locked in the open position. Does anyone know how to unlock it? It wont budge.

It had been working fine the few minutes before. I took my tripod down to move and when I went to set up again, it was locked.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Spencer
Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: francois on August 12, 2005, 04:27:26 am
Download the PDF version (http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/ReallyRightStuff.pdf) of the RRS catalog. On page 8, you'll find a desciption of the procedure to unfreeze your BH. If it fails to unlock it, you may have a more serious problem with it.

HTH,
Francois
Title: Arca-Swiss B1 Locked up
Post by: larryg on August 12, 2005, 10:30:06 am
Precision camera in Chicago  works on the b1 If you need service contact them
847-430-8088.

He does quite a bit of work for Arca Swiss.
I don't remember his name but I think it was Bob?