01-19-2017, 02:15 AM
To spare unnamed the trouble of taking his stick apart:
This is about as far as you can take it apart without removing the base plate. The black semi-sphere is where the actual stick is attached.
This black plastic ring 'floats' on the four aluminium cylinders. It is pressed down by a big spring (see pictures below) which in term presses down on the stick-base-sphere-thing, which centers the stick.
This is the part that needs to be replaced, you can see how it cracks all around at the screw-holes. The effect is that the stick doesn't center properly anymore. At this stage it is severe enough that the stick is basically not useable anymore
Thats the big spring I mentioned above. It presses down onto the black plastic ring and therefore centers the stick.
That metall plate on top is just the top cover that you see when it is fully assambled. It is screwed onto the four aluminium cylinders visible in the first picture. Therefore it keeps the spring down so that it can do its job. I left out the side-cover, usually all this would be hidden behind a black cylinder. That black part on top of the metall plate is usually covered by a silver ring, I didn't bother to put it back on yet.
It will take a while until I can fix it. I'll have to drive home to my parents place this weekend to bring my dad the broken part. He should be able to build a copy out of aluminium. I'm hoping that I have the part by the weekend after this one.
This is about as far as you can take it apart without removing the base plate. The black semi-sphere is where the actual stick is attached.
This black plastic ring 'floats' on the four aluminium cylinders. It is pressed down by a big spring (see pictures below) which in term presses down on the stick-base-sphere-thing, which centers the stick.
This is the part that needs to be replaced, you can see how it cracks all around at the screw-holes. The effect is that the stick doesn't center properly anymore. At this stage it is severe enough that the stick is basically not useable anymore
Thats the big spring I mentioned above. It presses down onto the black plastic ring and therefore centers the stick.
That metall plate on top is just the top cover that you see when it is fully assambled. It is screwed onto the four aluminium cylinders visible in the first picture. Therefore it keeps the spring down so that it can do its job. I left out the side-cover, usually all this would be hidden behind a black cylinder. That black part on top of the metall plate is usually covered by a silver ring, I didn't bother to put it back on yet.
It will take a while until I can fix it. I'll have to drive home to my parents place this weekend to bring my dad the broken part. He should be able to build a copy out of aluminium. I'm hoping that I have the part by the weekend after this one.