Star guides support the camera head through the use of vanes extending from the outer ring.
Installation
Star guides are held in place with two C-shaped clip rings.
- Select the size of star guide appropriate for the job. Star guides may be trimmed by cutting the individual vanes with scissors.
- Spread a C-ring open just enough to slip it over the hub of the star guide. Align the C-ring gap with the gap in the star guide.
- Press the C-ring into the grooved portion of the star guide hub.
- Repeat with a second C-ring for the opposite side of the hub.
- Spread the star guide and C-rings together and slide over the camera head. Alternatively, spread the star guide around the cable and up from the camera base.
- Release the star guide when it is in the desired position.
- Pre-stressing the vanes of the star guide helps make them more flexible during use. Bend each vane gently back and forth several times to pre-stress them.
- Once the star guide is installed, adjusting the C-ring so that the gap is at least 90 degrees from the star guide’s gap will help to prevent loss.
Removal
- Slide the end of a flat-tipped screwdriver between the C-ring and the base of a vane.
- Pry or snap the C-ring off.
- Repeat for the second C-ring.
- Slide the star guide and C-rings off the cable.