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Old 21-10-2010, 08:39 PM
The_Cat (Jeremy)
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Originally Posted by Carl View Post
Hi folks
will i reduce the chance of flexure by mounting my C8, 80ed and 9x50 guide scope on a side by side plate?
Currently i have my 80ed piggy backed on he C8 and now need to find a location for my 9x50 guidescope preferable central to both imaging scopes.

This will be mounted on a NEQ6 pro mount

Cheers Carl
Difficult question to answer. Minimizing differential flexure is a matter of sound mechanical construction. Piggy backing can lead to higher overall loads on the mount as one needs to increase the counter weights quite a bit to balance the added load away from the RA axis.

Here is an example of a plate for side by side mounting notice the added bars (machined) on underneath that are fixed with many screws.



http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nmcM5hLJalE/TM...Plate_1373.jpg

For those interested. The above plate is machined out of Aluminium Alloy 6081 that has a small proportion of Titanium.

Last edited by The_Cat; 21-10-2010 at 08:56 PM. Reason: Addition
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