I hope the fix works when I get the rig. The tilta style of locking down is similar to how my pan handle locks down on my miller tripod head. It is very secure but they are quite well known for wearing down over the years until they start to slip and become useless.

I assumed that it was rubber gasket of some sort. There is a black rubber like substance that rubbed off into the ball head.

@lanparte....with all due respect, if I understand your rendering, I don't think this will work. You may have to put another screw on the opposite side, but even then, it will wear off. The way the ball head is designed, there are circumferential grooves only in one axis. Therefore, at best, it will only achieve strong grip along that axis. You'd have to also mill grooves in the perpendicular axis as well. I think Tilta type plates will be a bit less flexible, but much stronger. See the details in the picture

Hi guys. We found the problems, there is do have a little problem of the handle joint. (the ballhead with thread and the rubber washer works weel)See the following pics. We will use a stainless steel ring to solve this probelm. Our engineer made the ring, our worker will finish it tomorrow, we will try it as soon as we get the part, we do believe we can fix it.
We are so sorry to bring you this kind of problems, we will delivery the new handles to you immediately after the test.(of course we will make sure this solution works) if this solution failure we will give the latest handle to you which can totally overcome this problem, I will post the latest handle tomorrow when I back to my office.

>It appears that the rubber gasket material that holds the ball joint is not strong enough. Not sure if there can be an easy fix for that.

What do you mean? Can you show this?

Got the rig yesterday and it works fine so far, I have not had the screw problem yet.

How do you guys balance this stuff? It is so front heavy that it is almost impossible for me a shoulder use of it.

What do I miss/wrong?

@spreegurkespreegurke I am starting to develop the same problem on my handle after a weekend of shooting. I thought it was my fault b/c my rig is heavy and sometimes I'm not too gentle with it. But seeing that you have the same problem I think perhaps there is a problem with the design. I've contacted Lanparte and he's promising a solution.

@lanparte The problem is not where the screw goes into the plastic lever. It appears that the rubber gasket material that holds the ball joint is not strong enough. Not sure if there can be an easy fix for that.

any lanparte ebay store? I only need to buy some parts from them.

Payment for personal-view.com rig deal - straight
This is the paypal title, so I thought the straight you said were the straight version. We will double check the handle problem. Anyone get the problem will get the new handle which lock tighter, I will upload the 3D render on monday. Sorry for the issue again, we will fix it.

Received my rig today.
It got stuck in costums, because they declared to little value on the invoice, so I had to send in the PayPay receipt...

However, the AF100 fits into the C-Clamp of the rig, if you remove the camera handle.
All in all the system looks OK for the money, but I came upon one problem.
You have to tighten the ball-joints of the hadle-bars quite firm in order to prevent them from moving, when you operate the rig.
The little handles which you use to tighten it up have the screw-threats supposedly only screwed and glued in.
So when I tightened it, the threat got stuck to rig, and I can not open/remove it without any tools. So this is nothing you would want to happen on a shoot. See pictures attached.

Also they send me the Offset Clamp, but I ordered straight.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Is the PayPal email address of Lanparte the same that I would contact in order to ask for the straight clamp and replacement handles?

Doing a lot of weddings with my af100 and monopod/tripod.
This is something I would like to invest in.

@mrmukke
If you mean with the rig, ask seller (if you need both straigh and offset clamps). As I remember it is about $40.
Separately - via ebay.

@Vitaly
Thanks, but I have received the PayPal shipping notification & Tracking Number today.

I have ordered and payed the rig last wednesday and never heart anything from them so far. No confirmation, no shipping notice, no answer to my mail... Should I start to worry?
Has anyone else received the rig already?