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[Nokton48]

FOBA 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

My original retro idea which kind of went modern. This photo was an inspiration to me. I already had the 5x7 Norma and multiple C40 Tripods complete.

 

[MrFujicaman]

Grüezi Pallas and welcome to this forum

I think you assumption is right. They look very much as a tripod part. These sleeves are used in the tripod tubes to keep them looked once they extended and locked. Yours look like they are made of some kind of glass fibre material...

I checked my old generation ALFAE tripod and it have very similar sleeves as yours. See the attached photos

Are they from FOBA?
I don't really know... How conclude you that they are from FOBA? Any indications?
Some FOBA tripods use parts that look as they are made by Gitzo... I am pretty sure Gitzo rebranded stuff for FOBA...

Would I keep it?
Definitely or sell it on the usual market places! Spare parts are always welcome! I regret all the stuff I couldn't save during the FOBA closure...

Hope that helps





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here the tripod in question, a old gen of ALFAE where the center column is screwed with three screws
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The technical name is "bushing".












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[FOBELIO]

FOBA 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

My original retro idea which kind of went modern. This photo was an inspiration to me. I already had the 5x7 Norma and multiple C40 Tripods complete.

I have the lamp between the photographers legs... my buddy who helped me saving FOBA stuff during the closure sold it to me recently...
I have also the small brother but without the projector lens...






the other lamp on the left reminds me the moment during closure of FOBAs factory when they started to empty their "old stuff"...
Not knowing that they had also this stuff laying around and they start to dump them in a container I got very exited... I made an emergency call to my buddy to come immediately to the FOBA factory to save what ever we could...

this large beast (lens diameter around 60cm...) was saved by my buddy...



sadly other things ended scrapped...
my situation reminded me the scene of the movie "The Name of the Rose" with Sean Connery, where he is trying to save as much ancient books as possible from a burning library but he don't know where to start because there are so many precious books... 😂