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625 Content: 2002 : #6

Arri Fastening Facilities
By Alexander Luganskiy

Well-known to television professional Arri Company producers not only high quality filming and luminary equipment, but also the wide range of quality products for luminariers fastening.

It is natural that company produces wide range of tripods for facility setting. All of the tripods have telescopic construction and are different in various section numbers what provides different maximum height of facility setting: some models provide the lifting height over 5m. Relatively light tripods of LA series can carry the loading of up to 35...40 kg. They can be equipped with direct legs that are fastened on telescopic column with the help of sliding (upper) and stable (lower) crosspieces as well as curved legs that can be moved along the column with the help of clamping sleeve.

Fixing of tripod leg by means of flange

Such tripods are especially comfortable to be used when the facility needs to be set on complicated surface like steps, inclined plane, etc. Legs of tripods can have on their ends usual plastic gags, rubber pads, wheels for simplifying of moving along the surface or flanges with holes for hard fastening of tripod to the floor. This fastening can be made with the help of nails, screws, etc.

Heavy tripods of LB series (cargo carrying capacity of 70...100 kg) and LS (30...45 kg) are equipped with the mechanism for regulation of lifting height of fastened facility.

That mechanism is done on the base of cogged worm couple with handle and provides not only lifting easiness of the facility even of maximum weight but also its reliably fixing on necessary height. For rotation of these reducer serves the removable handle.


Autopole distance-piece rods

Additionally to the tripods a big number of telescopic booms and bars that are set on the tripod with the help of different clamps, clips and bushes are produced. To equal the mass of the equipment settled on the facility such counterbalances as solid with special bracket and bags with friable stuff, which are hanged on the opposite side of the boom are used.

One more kind of bars produced by Arri Company is crossbars that can be set horizontally or vertically with prop into opposite walls or into floor and ceiling correspondingly. These bars serve as load-carrying structure (girders) on which the luminariers are suspended. With the help of these facilities lightning can be set almost in any studio of small dimensions (maximum bar length is 3.7 m).

To finish the line of Arri fastening facilities there is a wide number of different accessories, such as clamps, clips, bushes, mounting flanges, adapters, tips, extenders of different configuration and much other. So using the whole range of Arri products it is possible to fasten almost any television luminary equipment both in film studio and outdoors.

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