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How to make a mini tripod for your camera

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You need

• A tennis ball
• Pen
• A knife, scissors, blades razor or saw
• A quarter of an inch by one inch, 20-thread machine screw nylon
• A drill or punch (optional)

Caution: When armed with a knife, razor blade, saw, or drill, always use extreme caution.

Step 1: Reduce by half the tennis ball

Take an old tennis ball that has lost its bounce and cut it in half with a knife, scissors, razor blades, or saw.

Step 2: Select the first foot

Take a pen and, on the bottom edge of half of the tennis ball where you want, make a small mark which is approximately half an inch on the side of the ball. Then make another mark pen a half-inch away from that. This set of marks is the first "leg" of your tripod.

Step 3: Select the second and third legs

Mark the second leg moving an inch and a half along the edge of the ball and make a mark and a mark there is a half-inch of it. Repeat this process once again, making another series of marks, an inch and a half of the second series.

Step 4: Cut the feet

Flatten the ball and cut in a straight line, the space between the three "feet" that you just created with your pen marks. When you release the ball, you have a dome with three legs that are separated by arcs.

Step 5: Cut a hole in the top

At the top of the dome, draw a circle around the size of a quarter and reduced this.

You can also cut a small square next to the circle to make a keyhole design, this will allow you to tilt the tripod in different directions.

Step 6: Create washers

Take the other half of the tennis ball and cut two circles out of it, each about an inch and a half in diameter. Next, cut a quarter inch hole in the dead center of each circle to make two rounds.

If you have a drill or a drill bit with a quarter of an inch, use it to make the center holes.

Step 7: Start the tripod mounting

Take one quarter inch by one inch, 20-wire, nylon machine screws and hold to point upwards, with the screw head on the bottom. Now press on one of the slices, rounded side up, all along the screw until it touches the screw head.

Step 8: Finish tripod mounting

Then, push the dome tripod over the puck. Finally, push the puck, rounded side up, down over the dome. The washer, dome, and the puck should all fit together perfectly.

Step 9: Attach the camera

Find the tripod mounting hole that is on the bottom of all cameras, both film and digital, and place it over the screw comes out of your tennis ball tripod. Voila! You have a pocket camera tripod.

Did you know? A tennis ball is always good if it bounces between 53 and 58 inches in case of fall from a height of 100 inches.

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