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affordable adapter for 5/8" light stands

Submitted by recordista on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 10:54

:cool: I recently purchased four of these from LSC in Los Angeles and am very happy with both the construction and the price ($14.95 retail.) I am told that Coffey Sound also carries them.

Courtney Goodin (aka Goodsound) makes them and says:

They are turned from a single piece of 70/75 high-Grade Aircraft aluminum and black hard-Anodized. Thumbscrew is Steel with press-fit Plastic knob. I've been making and using these for about 20 years and never had one fail. They can support more than 100 lbs on the post.

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recordista

FifthCircle wrote: What do that adapt from? It is hard to see inside it.... Is it that "knob" on the top of many light stands?

Yes, the 5/8" spigot.

I've purchased some pretty cool adapters from photo supply shops to adapt photo light stands to a 3/8" Euro thread.

Precisely what this does.

Manfrotto 3102 is the part number. They are of a similar price, but larger in size.

Same street price, yes. Advantage: mounts at 0º or 90º to the stand. Disadvantages: steel (adds weight, can strip threads on your 3/8" female bits) and extra length.

Wed, 05/04/2005 - 23:02 Permalink
anonymous

Stand adapters

Here are some guys who sell those adapters (and lots of other useful goodies too):

http://www.micsupply.com/standaccessories.htm

I think their price is $17 and the ones I got from them were certainly heavy duty. Not the cheapest price, however.

Based on recomendations from folks here, I recently bought a few Bogen/Manfrotto light stands from my local camera shop and used them for a few classical gigs - I was glad to have also picked up a few little sandbags too...you are right, people feel compelled to lean on these stands as if they were telephone poles or something....sandbags and gaffer tape saved my rear-end!!!

-dave

Sat, 05/07/2005 - 22:55 Permalink