Triton multistand issue

[cflansbaum]

hello all -- like I believe a number of you, I purchased a Triton Multistand and was playing around with it yesterday trying to decide if I should buy another one.  I realized that in the fully horizontal position, it was significantly out of level.  Some fiddling and detective work revealed that the two holes drilled into the support tube are not in line.  I was able to rectify things  with some washer shims where the top jaws assembly meets the pivoting plates.  I'm not sure if this is just with my unit or not, but thought I'd share so others can check their unit.

Carl

 

[Forrest Anderson]

hello all -- like I believe a number of you, I purchased a Triton Multistand and was playing around with it yesterday trying to decide if I should buy another one.  I realized that in the fully horizontal position, it was significantly out of level.  Some fiddling and detective work revealed that the two holes drilled into the support tube are not in line.  I was able to rectify things  with some washer shims where the top jaws assembly meets the pivoting plates.   I'm not sure if this is just with my unit or not, but thought I'd share so others can check their unit.

I had the out-of-level problem with both of mine when I bought them in the UK a couple of years ago. I thought about solving the problem your way, but I decided on a different approach.

Instead of adding packing pieces between one end of the head assembly and the two semi-circuar plates, I elongated the curved slot in each of the two plates with a Dremel, and now the head can now go to about -3 degrees (ie 90 --> 0 --> -3).

Forrest

 

[joiner1970]

I just bought two for ?55 inc delivery direct from Triton UK. I got them on Friday will check to see if mine are the same when I get a chance.

 

[James Metcalf]

I have two with the very same problem and would say they all have the same minor problem.                                                                                                                                Thanks Forrest for the picture and Carl for the heads up.  Easy fix.

 

[AMC]

Same problem, some solution as Forrest A. It took about five minutes with the Dremel.

Matt

 

[Corwin]

Hmmm, now on my sixth without such a problem.  Go figure.

Corwin