Topic: Where Can I Buy a ROWI Clamp?

[Chris K]

i got my rowi clamp on ebay. it took a couple months to find, and i bid up pretty high but got it for $15. guess i got lucky.

does anyone know where to get the 1/4" to 5/8" thread adapter thingie? i have one but it it beat to all hell and the threads are fairly striped on both ends. can one be had (or made) from a local hardware store?

[fozzy]

i got my rowi clamp on ebay. it took a couple months to find, and i bid up pretty high but got it for $15. guess i got lucky.

does anyone know where to get the 1/4" to 5/8" thread adapter thingie? i have one but it it beat to all hell and the threads are fairly striped on both ends. can one be had (or made) from a local hardware store?

hardware stores won't carry a 5/8-27 threaded adapter.  I never could find a 1/4 > 5/8 adapter for a reasonable price.  I do have a few setup where i use a 1/4 > 3/8 adapter and then a 3/8 > 5/8 adapter

[F.O.Bean]

I forget where I got my 1/4>5/8" adapter at, but I permanently epoxied the adapter onto my rowi so I never had to worry about it. Does anyone need one? I'll check and make sure, but I think I still have one somewhere.....I think I got mine from markertek but I am not sure!

[kskreider]

I got my adapters from B&H.  Instead of using epoxy to fix it in your clamp just try a little bit of teflon tape.  It will stay put yet still be removable if you need to do so. 

Edit to add that I still have not received my clamp from Bradley yet.  (Been about a week and a half)  They did say that they were all the way over in Maryland, but I didn't think they were going to walk it across the country either.

[F.O.Bean]

I have been on a Rowi/Rowi knockoff fix as of lately. In the past week I bought 1 Rowi 103, 1 Rowi 77, and I'm bidding on a Rowi 79 knockoff Guess its better than drinking my money away tho

[F.O.Bean]

Heres that Rowi 79 knockoff

www.photogitems.com/Mini_Tripod_p/5800.htm