By all up - I understand you mean the telescope tube, the pier, the mount, the counter-weights and the guide tube. This makes a bit more sense now - having a 4" telescope alone weight 170 lbs seemed kinda crazy on first read!
Do you have any pictures of it looking down the lens - how well is it baffled?
Being such long focal length, does it lessen the need for a fine focuser (one of the 10: 1 geared reduction jobs)?
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