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The new base is designed also to quickly and easily attach to my Takahashi EM400 tripod. The base adapter came with the tripod but needed to be chucked on my lathe and trimmed of excess material as well as giving it a nice polish. I then cut some 80mm x 25mm aluminium solid bar to size, drilled some holes and polished them up before bolting it all together. The new based places the head a little higher and hold it very solidly, it also has fewer places for cable to catch on.
I have also added a Robin Casady polished stainless steel counterweight (10Kg), replaced the little thumbscrew that holds the counterweight bar with a much more solid one and installed a polished ADM saddle plate...
I have found this to be the best mount for my outreach efforts so far...
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Scopes: Apertura AD12 f/5; Celestron C6-R f/8; ES AR127 f/6.4; Stellarvue SV102T f/7; iOptron MC90 f/13.3; Orion ST80A f/5; ES ED80 f/6; Celestron Premium 80 f/11.4; Celestron C80 f/11.4; Unitron Model 142 f/16; Meade NG60 f/10
Mounts: Celestron AVX; Bresser EXOS-2; ES Twilight I; ES Twilight II; iOptron Cube-G; AZ3/wood tripod; Vixen Polaris
Binoculars: Pentax PCF WP II 10×50, Bresser Corvette 10×50, Bresser Hunter 16×50 and 8×40, Garrett Gemini 12×60 LW, Gordon 10×50, Apogee 20×100
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Thanks Bryan, keeps me busy on the cloudy evenings.
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TMB-LZOS 152mm F7.9 @ 1200mm
Takahashi FOA 60mm F8.8
Takahashi FC76DC F7.5
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Fracs: Stellarvue 70T f6; SW 120mm Esprit f7; "Mark Mk. II" - 60 mm Tasco f6; C80 frac f 11.4
SCT: C8 Edge f10 or f7 with reducer
Dob: 14.5" homebuilt strut dob (f4.5 ZOC mirror), Nexus II, Moonlite focuser
Mounts - Ioptron Skyguider pro, Astro Physics GTO900
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Mounts: SW: SkyTee2, AzGTi; iOptron: AZMP; ES: Twilight I; Bresser: EXOS2; UA: MicroStar.
Binos: APM: 100-90 APO; Canon: IS 15x50; Orion: Binoviewer, LG II 15x70, WV 10x50, Nikon: AE 16x50, 10x50, 8x40.
EPs: Pentax: XWs & XFs; TeleVue: Delites, Delos, Panoptic & Plossls; ES: 68, 62; Vixen: SLVs; Baader: BCOs, Aspherics, Mark IV.
Diagonals: Baader: BBHS mirror, Zeiss Spec T2 prism, Clicklock dielectric; TeleVue: Evebrite dielectric; AltairAstro: 2" prism.
Filters: Lumicon: DeepSky, UHC, OIII, H-beta; Baader: Moon & SkyGlow, Contrast Booster, UHC-S, 6-color set; Astronomik: UHC.
Solar: HA: Lunt 50mm single stack, W/L: Meade Herschel wedge.
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SCOPE : Skywatcher 120X600 ST Achromatic Refractor.
EP's : 25mm & 10mm Plossl , Celestron 8/24mm Zoom EP,
Filters : Solar filter, Badder Fringe Killer & Moon/Skyglow.
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I wish I had a lathe..... And a milling machine....... And a shaping machine...... And a drill press....... A nice forge would be fun too and maybe a grinding machine. A yone got a factory for sale.
Oh I forgot the mig/tig and gas welding gear......
Canon lenses 100 to 400 L series, 18 to 135 usm.
Mount's, 2x alt az, 2 x eq (adventurer an neq6pro.)
70dw cam. Ssag guider. Observatory and pier setup.
Binoculars Saxon 20x80.
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I could use some of those machines too Jen. The lathe I use was found at a rubbish tip. Those 80mm x 25mm solid aluminium uprights were cut with my docking saw with a timber cutting blade....Jennifer Christine wrote:Fri May 17, 2019 5:44 am Quite lovely.
I wish I had a lathe..... And a milling machine....... And a shaping machine...... And a drill press....... A nice forge would be fun too and maybe a grinding machine. A yone got a factory for sale.
Oh I forgot the mig/tig and gas welding gear......
Rainmaker “Excalibur” 18” F3.5 +SIPS @ 1860mm
TMB-LZOS 152mm F7.9 @ 1200mm
Takahashi FOA 60mm F8.8
Takahashi FC76DC F7.5
Skylight AR101.15
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I do have trade certs for them though.
Canon lenses 100 to 400 L series, 18 to 135 usm.
Mount's, 2x alt az, 2 x eq (adventurer an neq6pro.)
70dw cam. Ssag guider. Observatory and pier setup.
Binoculars Saxon 20x80.
FRIED wallet.
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