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bmitchell82
12-05-2010, 11:54 PM
This is a sharing my experiences thread.

Well the new 3" FT focuser arrived on monday, so i quickly put it together and hooray it fits! last night the better half was over so i was black listed from the tools....

tonight im into it, retuned the eq6 after its rebuild, and presently doing PE runs, lets hope it is all tuned to within a hair :) but a small dissapointment the new 3"ft is taller than the skywatcher OEM... i could put longer collimation screws in, but this will only just get to focus along with bigger and new springs meh, so ill be a choppin the tube.

Off to the prototyping lab i go :)

bmitchell82
14-05-2010, 02:35 AM
Tube chopped, ahhh lovely when you have the right tools! FT installed finally and it comes to focus 15mm out from full in, and leaves the drawtube flush with the bottom of the focuser!

Finally smooth as focusing control, rotation of the focuser without having to release the camera and upsetting focus! Grand!... now onto the next OCD tinkering ! :D