Hello again. If you remember a little while ago we did a video about how to clean your tripod. There's a link to that video just up here. And in that video we focused on the tripod that have the twisty legs and a few of you have since asked me to do another one with a tripod that has clicky legs. Now the reason I didn't do a clicky leg tripod clean last time because I don't actually have a tripod that's got the clicky legs. But since doing my last video a number of people have brought tripod to me, three people actually and and sent to me, oh would you clean that tripod for me? And one of those people has got a tripod with clicky legs. So I now have the opportunity to show you a video with a tripod cleaning for clicky legs as requested. So here I've got a tripod, it's a carbon fiber tripod and it's made by a company called Geotze. Geotze, Geotze, I am familiar with the brand. It's not a one I'm totally, I've owned to be fair, not totally familiar with but I've heard of it. And this tripod is a carbon fiber but it has the clicky legs. So I'm going to show you today how to clean these tripods. Now you've got to need a few things. We're not going to go into the detail of cleaning the legs like we did last time and how to clean the legs and not kind of stuff that you can use over video for that. But I would tell you how to take these legs apart to clean them. Now these are different, you'll want just to turn the wheel and come off and away you go. These ones are a little bit different because you've got this click mechanism. Now you're going to need, in this case, it's an Allen key and it's relatively smaller and key. It's not the same size Allen key that does all the legs at the top or your traditional camera stuff. It's not the same one that does the tripod mount. This is quite a little bit smaller. I have seen these with screws as well. I can fill it with screwdriver but I'm just going to use this Allen key because that's what this one requires and I'm going to pop it in where the top of the clicker is and I'm going to literally going to start turning. Now I'm going to put my finger underneath this tripod because when I feel it release itself there it is. Just let me move this out the way a little bit so you can see it. I'll leave that there. It's not released itself just yet. It is screwed into a thread down below. There we go. Now when that comes out you'll see there's a little mechanism with a long screw on there. We just put that down for a second. Now underneath here where I've got my finger is, first of all, a little screw. That's not anything, not a screw. Let's put that to one side. But also hidden in there somewhere. You'll always find this. I'll just find and pop it out with my Allen key. There we go. It's a little spring and that gives it that kind of springiness. So what we then do is you can then take your leg and you can pull it down to the bottom. This mechanism here, this collar that was held on by that bolt will literally just slide off onto that leg. Then you've got these two little bits one on top. You saw the one on the bottom fall off. There's two little plastic collars. We'll put those there. Then that should now enable the leg to pull out. Now as we get to the end, as in our normal other tripod there is a little white fella. This is white obviously. It may not always be white but there's two little clips there. Tucked inside the frame on top of the leg, just perched in a hole. That's it, leg in pieces. So now we can get a, in this case, I'm going to use a peck pad which is great for it. So just general cleaning and I'm going to give that just a bit of a clean around, knock some things around. Same on the end of the leg. This one's not actually not that dirty to be fair to it. Now we're finding the dirt. I'm going to do the same with these little clips because that's also where the dirt will accumulate. Let's give them a good old clean off each of them. Good idea to do the screws. A lot of dirt, you probably can't see it. There's a lot of gritting that screw. When it comes out, it will. I can put that down there. I'm just going to, easy way to go. It's clean and screw. It's put it in your hand and turn it anti-clockwise. Lefty loosey, righty tighty. So we're doing it lefty loosey. Right the way out your fingers and what that does is it cleans the thread. It gets all the grit out the threads and leaves it in your, in your and in your little cloth there. Screws and the threads and leaves clean. That's pretty clean itself. That's it. So we don't need that anymore. Okay, so we've cleaned that area of the mechanism and now the interesting bit. We're going to put it back together again. So first things first, we're going to take these little white plastic fillers and we're going to just bob them back into the little locating slots there. These little units then go back into a slightly very careful. You do this and it goes, it goes. You don't put it all the way in because now what we've got to do is is the rest of it. So next thing we need to put on these two black caps that we've cleaned. They just kind of pop back on there. Then we need to take the, the colour, slide that over there and it will just go back on there. It needs a little bit of help. I'm going to say help. I mean force and then we should be in a position where we can put this mechanism up together. So we take the clip, drop the screw in and I always start by doing it. Just dropping it in there. Then we need to take the spring, put the spring. You probably can't see that going in. Into the little hole underneath. Well I've got the finger on there. I'm going to take the screw and then bob the screw into the hole as well on top of the spring. Hold it roughly in place and then whilst I'm holding the, so whether not not the screw in that position then if I give that a twist I'll be able to locate it. There we go. I found it and then tighten it up. Now when it comes to getting the right tightness we want it so that it moves quite smoothly. Whether it's up or when it goes down we don't want it to move. So give it a pull. It's moving so that means it's too loose. So it's what we do is get the Allen key back in. Give it a tight enough. Not moving that. Once again it's quite smooth. We could probably just go a little bit further and that's why that little spring's there. Just to keep the tension on the, on the nut so it's with the full of pieces and I'll just keep going until it starts to stiffen up. That's about it. Not going there. All that's up close. And that in its simplest way is how to clean one of these tripods. They do clean up very well. They take a lot of work sometimes because there's a few moving parts and they can get quite fiddly but they do work. They can be cleaned and you can almost bring them back to back to you. As long as you look after them on a regular basis most tripods are last a good while. It's where you don't clean them and bash them around a bit that they start to fail on you. Good tripods you'd last for many years. Okay thank you very much for watching this video. Thank you very much for watching this video. If you have enjoyed it please leave us some comments down below. There's a button just there as well that you can use to subscribe to our channel. And if you want to watch more videos try these too because they've been picked from my channel that's hopefully you'll enjoy those. Until next time thank you very much for watching.