Total crap and PEARL may times ......

as tripod, you can use it, but nothing more, and even for this purpose there are better and cheaper alternatives. and I really tried everything but this part can be anywhere stall because the screw with a plastic washer backed the then gives way when one missile? the screw, the locking screw down brings nothing there so that the clamping foot pushed away and not go !! GPs, I went initially from a defect and have the part time completely disassembled, clean the structure can not work something, (My brother is a photographer and even said he would have such a crap never seen) And I've found that the inner screws were verostet .habe then returned the tripod at Pearl and had it fill a forever long return slip with loss description and so on, after 2 weeks I got exactly my tripod back it was not unpacked times of Pearl, I wanted my money back who, at first I thought now they send me a new but no, I received an e-mail stating the 30 days return policy already past .I had so far always as a gezeder with PEARL I never order again something there