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Originally Posted by HenryNZ
Hi Brent,
Your observatory is my inspiration for upgrading my wooden pier. The wooden pier works ok but I want something more permanent. The sky at my place is not ideal so I hesitate to throw a lot of money at an observatory, as I secretly hope that one day we will move to somewhere with better sky. That's the reason I don't want something so permanent as a concrete pier, and I also want to keep the cost to a minimum.
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Sorry about that Henry ...
My Sky is pretty restricted and bad as well, especially since they turned the lights on at the new Waterview Motorway Cycle\Walkway Bridge. But we persist as we must.
What ground base do you have ? Where are you located ?
Some form of solid base is going to be required regardless.
My 'tin shed' Ob construction probably cost about $700 all up. Cheap Chinese shed, fence paling wood structural strengthening, some handy timber I had round. It's all about scrounging.
The pier is a 10" concrete pipe secured by an M12 threaded rod to an existing concrete slab. I capped it with a cast concrete top for the rat cage studs. The mold was an upturned paint bucket !
Us engineers are dodgy types, but it don't move !
