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Glad to see I'm not alone!
To reinforce your temptation, it really does make a massive difference to setup and takedown times and effort.
Quite often I just take a look at the sky as twilight arrives, decide whether there's a suitable target using Telescopius and Viola, the thing is up and running in about 10 minutes at most, including lugging the OTA out and putting it on the mount. The 11pm sleepy time takedown takes even less, 5 minutes and all is safe and snug and I'm back in front of the fire.
A small aside if you proceed; Make the pier about 30cm shorter than mine to facilitate OTA on/off and it also reduces overall equipment height, so more OTAs will fit under the shed door height and don't then need removal. I tried to get a slightly higher shed size, but the next one up was too big.
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