Surveyor tripod adapter

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This was born out of the need to take levels single handedly. ‘If only I could attach my laser measurer to my tripod I could fire the beam then take the level while holding the staff’. So this attaches to a standard surveyors tripod (5/8 11 TPI). The footplate attaches to the bottom of my laser measurer and slides into the carriage which is based on the fitting for a camera to attach to a photographer’s tripod. Use the adjusting screws as you would with a dumpy level and away you go. The bearing was taken out of an old hard drive I had and a spring is inserted between the bottom and top plate to keep the adjusting screws under tension.