Re-Tuning AKA Troubleshooting
Occasionally you may need to re-tune your stabilizer if it isn’t moving freely,
makes a funny sound or if something just isn’t working right and no amount of
knob adjustments will get it working. You might have made an upgrade and need
to retune it from scratch. This is where you get out the M6 socket and M5 Allen
key that came with your stabilizer.
But first you need to get a little ‘Stabilizer Whisperer’ on it and listen to what your
stabilizer has to say
…
seriously! :)
What you are listening for is knocks, scratches or scrapes. In a quiet place get your
stabilizer (without the gimbal) and put it up to your ear while holding one handle
at a time and moving the central gimbal mount up and down. There will be some
just audible sounds that are mostly fine but if there’s an odd sound that pipes up
then try and work out where that is?
Some common problem sounds include the following:-
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Knocking around the spring adjuster
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Scratching or scraping around the spring adjuster
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Scratching or scraping around the gimbal mount
I run through every one of the following adjustments when I’m tuning the
stabilizers. You may pick and choose what you want to tune but it doesn’t take
long to check it all.
Knocking spring adjuster
The
knocking spring adjuster
is a simple fix. This likely means that the spring
adjuster bolt is slightly loose and the knocking sound is the bolt moving up and
down in the bearing mount. Take you socket and push it firmly over the recessed
bolt in the base so that if you turn it the spring adjuster knob turns too. Now what
you’ll do is firmly grip the spring adjuster knob and tighten the socket until it’s
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