One more tip: have SOTA ship the arm to you by 1- or 2-day air, not by ground. It doesn't weigh much and it's worth the few extra dollars.
Mine came by UPS ground and they took 7 days to get from the dealer to me during July. They apparently plopped it upside down in a 130 degree truck for most of that time: every square mm of that arm was coated in silicone oil that had leaked from the damping cylinder.
Now a TriPlanar has a LOT of square mm's. It took me four hours with cloths, Q-tips and alchohol to clean up the mess. Not much fun, but it did make me intimately familiar with each and every part of the arm. In the end I'm ALMOST glad it happened. ;-)
Mine came by UPS ground and they took 7 days to get from the dealer to me during July. They apparently plopped it upside down in a 130 degree truck for most of that time: every square mm of that arm was coated in silicone oil that had leaked from the damping cylinder.
Now a TriPlanar has a LOT of square mm's. It took me four hours with cloths, Q-tips and alchohol to clean up the mess. Not much fun, but it did make me intimately familiar with each and every part of the arm. In the end I'm ALMOST glad it happened. ;-)