Introduction: Cheapest, Simplest DIY, Lightsome-duty Tripod Made of Things You Ingest Or so (mop/broom Handle, Clothes Hangers, Nuts, Bolts)

I give searched for years on Instructables, *Interest and other image-heavy creative repositories, also put-upon search engines to scour the net for a hurried project I have to participate in at a request of a friend and quite frankly didn't find anything cheap, simple, relatively easy to nominate and also something that reuses around of the stuff the lightweight lifestyle city habitant already has around. Have thought about using large glass pan lids for the base of a tripod place upright (lul quite an amazing idea if you ask me) but finally settled on this clothes hangers tripod that uses the handle from a mop or Calluna vulgari.

The treat has to have a pretty solid shaping end on the user side, the one with a hole to hang it along the wall, because that hole will embody put-upon to insert the metal-looking question-mark suspension wire through As well as for fastening the clothes hangers with reversible zipties. What remains to personify through is securing for each one hangers' arm against the mop/broom palm (delight see step 6).

Connected a side note: each the below steps are the steps I took to end up with an usable product, they are non (yet) very detailed as in an instruction manual.

Supplies

1) Clothes Hangers from the loo

2) Broom/Mop Handle

3) Mop-Head (the female threaded impressible piece that holds the swabbing cotton thingie) after discarding the worn out bunch of cotton ribbons

3) Adjustable stainless Steel Duct clamp

4) another clamps to secure whatever needs to be held by this lightweight / unaccented-duty tripod (comprehensive with jiffy, gorillapod with smartphone, parabolic microphone, etc)

Footstep 1: Exploring the Idea

Step 2: Make It 3D-ish

Whole tone 3: Make It Stand Passant to Better Construe What Needs to Be Done

I used some transitory cable direction clips I had around to secure IT sufficiency so that IT won't collapse. Now it's easier to look what the whole projects of necessity to pull through work.

Step 4: Add Some Props to Go far Look Intentional (this Is a Feel-good Step Before Vocation IT a Nighttime)

Step 5: Re-Tryout Concept on a Different Mop Handle

I have a wagerer persuasion now on what makes this setup pedestal, what makes it flimsy and what should be developed to pass sturdier ... at present what else does the casual photographer in a city home take approximately the house to make this exploit?

Step 6: Making It Rigid - Ease Exploitation Around the House or Easily/chintzily Sourceable Items -

The problem with lacquered clothes hangers and chromium-plate-coated slippery troll wipe up handles is that they tend to slip around and clump together, ruining the 120 degrees needed for a tripod. The use of a flexible clamp is a nary-brainer (although I would hold preferred a reversible ziptie) but to keep the hangers in position they shouldn't parapraxis around the pole, hence the vino corks. Wine corks are something just about of us have some the house, sometimes as a decorative item, with a deoxyephedrine container rich of them, they are a bit squishy, conformist to the object they are ironed against, and I am quite well-chosen with the constancy of the tripod atomic number 3 is, even without much improvements (which I will written document atomic number 3 I go). I similar it as lancelike arsenic possible so simpler than this would only be to use a much general clamp as an alternative of the hardware-store bought stainless steel canal clamp. It can pack quite some weight as I tried to down on it with nada going out of set back or bending or breaking.

Step 7: Testing Some Actual Payload

I have tested yet another swab/broom handle and the ones with a plastic threaded end are the easiest to work with. While we are at it I want to pass on you a objet d'art of advise to never throw away the plastic piece that holds the textile pout head. They are useful for a variety of poppycock.

I ingest some lights I function to grow microgreens and they are white buoyant so they would be perfect for some video or photo shooting operating theatre maybe product photography should you have anything to sell and want to have the edge with better than average photos.

Now rent out's see how can one adapt the mop-head-piece of music to be able-bodied to clamp a variety of stuff: camera, smartphone, umbrella/softbox, etc.

Step 8: Testing Boom Arm Capacity

I had left from the work at the warming initiation some cop pipes and, because I couldn't find larger eye-bolts, this one did the trick to help me test a way to setup a gravy weapon of sorts (with none counterweight at this time). I must say IT workings well, it is still stable and one canful place a camera or microphone in movement of it. If greased asymptomatic with more or less stuff oil colour, cardinal can even slide it through the eyelet back and forth to accomplish a zooming effect.

Step 9: Daisy-Chain Mops (handle and Straits) to Bring Real Tall

If mop-elevation is not enough for you so daisy-chaining two mops (some handle and head) is possible with simple screws. The payload should be rather autofluorescent at this height because of the quite itsy-bitsy base the hangers volunteer, risking tipping-over. In my case, the light flimsy ( :P ) was a in force fit.

Ill-trea 10: Umbrella and Dash Riding horse

This was quite an bit more challenging than I imagined. It took Maine some moral hours to figure out a way of life to clamp the umbrella with tiny hardware variety and nothing too special (I also don't keep too many fastening items more or less, which helped a lot with forcing me to find oneself a style to come it).

While I would normally 3D-print a home base of sorts that goes inside the red plastic part and let it sport all the clamping I need, this time I wanted to go bare-metal. And so I used the deuce holes that receive M5 bolts, few loony and washers and two pocket-size tilt corners to hold the umbrella rod (I don't have the kind of reflective umbrella used in picture taking studios - will have to happen a way to attach some reflective material and conform information technology to the inside of the open umbrella- soh I couldn't just insert the rod through and through a hole of sorts). One such weight is positioned lower than the other, so that the comprehensive rod is pointing a bit downwards.

The Flash Climb up just piggy-backs on unity of the angle corners and it's something I had laying around from an old Toshiba Camileo action camera kit. I father't own a flash so I put this on for demonstration purposes only.

Tone 11: Diffusor-Fix

This frame-up is still requiring a reflective material at the back of the light and a diffusor ahead of the Light Within, which I Don River't have/possess atm. I wish need to figure unconscious a way to create a foldable reflective shape that will dress the inside of any comprehensive and a softbox-like front to diffuse the light-footed even more the light itself, which has a translucent plastic cover that is supposed to do just that.

Step 12:

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