Steadicam master series arm

[André Marques Gomes]

Hello 

my company acquired a steadicam master series and it seems that has some issues.

one of them being with the arm. The lower section does some noises (like an old bed) and sometimes the lower section jumps when you go up with steadicam and when you return down it stays up and you have to push the lower section down with your hand.

here it his a little video so that you can see what a mean. Notice that the steadicam his all out of balance because it doesn’t have the battery

can someone help me in how to solve and fix this issue

thanks a lot 

best regards

 

[Kevin Kisling]

For the sound, a service and cleaning is called for.

For the lower section "jumping": I think the lower section has too much lift dialed into it. And the upper section has too little lift in it. With my master arm, it'll jump like that when I have too much lift in it. 

With my master arm, whenever I am tuning my arm (first day with the camera package, etc) that it's quite easy to over tune the lower section and then under tune the upper section. This is the case especially when I'm being rushed.

Once I've had some time, I'll do the test you showed, and go back and forth increasing/decreasing the lift of the sections until I get them to move in unison as much as possible. I've found that my lower section will kinda always jump at least a tiny bit at the very bottom of the boom range. 

Hope this helps!