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Old 05-09-2020, 03:10 PM
Greggles (Gregory)
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Hi Greg

Thanks for the info. It sounds like your platform is working better than I assumed. That's good news. The Ed Jones style is great. The only tricky bit as that are a few angles to cut. If you have a good table saw that shouldn't be a problem.

One thing I don't quite follow. Reiner Vogel uses a simple pivot for the smaller sector. Did you do that? I did some drawings once and concluded that would only be feasible for higher latitudes than we have in Melbourne or Sydney since you would have to extend the length of the platform significantly.

Congratulations on building a platform. I think they are a great ATM project.

Rod

Hi Rod,

Your spot on, the simple pivot would of made the platform way to long so I made that segment the same as what would be on Ed's design.

Here is my old thread of my build
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=176305

Now just to decide new motor or new platform first

I have a table saw so not sure why I didnt just do that design from the start.

Also if you have instagram you can see photos I've got with it. Very happy with all my photos would just prefer at least 8 second exposures to save my cameras shutter count!

@astrogreggles

Cheers

Greg
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