Does anyone have success with the Cinemilled or ProAim gimbal dock with the factory Movi Ring? I tried it and my TB50’s couldn’t fit on it. Just wondering if I’m missing something or I just need to move on and ditch the factory ring and get the cinemilled Pro Ring. Or does the old like M5/M10 dock work with it?
The Cinemilled ring was kind of hard on the carbon fiber of my Movi Pro ring, and chewed it up a bit. Mainly cosmetic. I like the Cinemilled dock, but for many years, I just used a $6 garage hook from Lowes and sandwiched it in a gobo head, and it was an excellent dock! https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-12-8-in-Gray-Steel-Utility-Hook/50218517 Drilled a 3/8" hole in the plate to accommodate the gobo head, which allows me to mount directly on a baby pin\c-stand. Held some heavy builds over the years, too, and the hooks are nice and soft. The TB-50's will always be a little in the way when coming on and off the dock, so you have to pull back straight, but they do work. The Pro-Aim dock is a very similar copy of the Cinemilled... basically a blatant rip-off.
Have been struggling with this and only found you two talking about it. I have the blatant rip off (and you're not kidding, it's like exact) and have really been struggling with the TB-50s docking with the OEM ring. I took Graham's idea a step further and I think it's gonna work well. Took a 3/4" ID PVC pipe that's just about 25mm OD and cut it to the width that the other handles would have the dock set to. Then I bent a 3/8" aluminum rod with a cheap amazon rod bender on my bench vise. I did one side first, slid the PVC over and finished the other side. Then I plasti-dipped the ends. I'll probably dip the whole thing later. I 3D printed end caps that have a 3/8" slot and flanges to keep the whole thing centered on the dock. When you want to use the standard handles, you just take this adapter off. Easy!