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In what part of the tripod? Legs? Catches? Head movements?
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Depends what kind of tripod you have?
I run mine (carbon fibre) under a fast flowing outdoor tap I also looked it up on-line how to dismantle it and give it a good clean once a year.
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I run mine (carbon fibre) under a fast flowing outdoor tap I also looked it up on-line how to dismantle it and give it a good clean once a year.
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depends on the tripod material, I hose mine down fully extended no soap or nothing and use a soft brush to shift the muck then leave it still extended in my shed to dry. it is a manfrotto 190 xprob and have done this loads of times with no ill effects and have never used wd40 or anything else.
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I guess it depends on the construction of the tripod you've got but the only way I've found of doing it with our Manfrottos is to take each of the leg sections out. I then got a rag which I pulled through the centre of each section to get all the dry sand out. Easy enough though.
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Release the lower leg tensioning screw, slide the low leg out, remove the end rubber foot and just wash it out with running water.
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cant you remove the rubber foot of the last section to get to the sand.
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I put mine in the bath when I come home, leave it to soak in, then when I get into work use the workshop airline to blow any remaining bits off, then fill it with WD40 and again use the airline to blow the WD into the joints and to blow the excess off.
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Seems a bit excessive 
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Seems a bit excessive
Not if you shoot a lot of seascapes and spend a lot of time in salt water. The alternative is to drop £900 or so on an Ocean Traveller but I'm not keen on the head, even if it is seaproof.
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taff63 said:
I'm assuming you mean inside the tripod. I lost a rubber foot at the beach once and ended up with sand inside the legs. I tried all kinds of ways to clean it but ultimately ended up taking it apart and cleaning it part by part. That was what worked for me but I must worn you to be very careful doing this. I'm mechanically inclined and it took me a good wail to figure out how to put it back together. If you pay very close attention to it as your taking it apart you should be fine.