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The legs of the tripod should be spread out to place the tripod arms in the correct position for
assembly.
Tripods shipped in or before July 2013 are assembled as follows:
The tripod arms must be assembled in the correct order!
Each tripod arm is permanently mounted to one of the tripod legs in a
different
vertical mounting position
(top, middle, or bottom; see
Figure 2). The arm that is mounted
to the tripod leg
at the top position
must be placed at the topmost position where the arms intersect. The
arm that is mounted
to the tripod leg
at the bottom position must also be
on the bottom where the arms intersect. The arm mounted to the tripod
leg in the middle position must be placed in the middle.
If the tripod arms are not assembled in the correct order, the centers of
the arms will not align properly.
Figure 2: Tripod (before July 2013) arm mounted in the middle position.
Figure 5 shows the order to assemble each component.
Note that each tripod arm is mounted to the tripod leg at a different vertical position: top, middle and
bottom. In
