Balancing a RC scope.

[Somnium]

i am looking to call on the collective wisdom of IIS. the weight distribution of my scope is a little asymmetrical so i can never get perfect balance in all positions at once. i am looking to put some sort of counterweight, probably at the secondary end of the scope but i cant find anything that would do the job. Anyone had any experience and luck with this type of balancing ?

[glend]

Yes i do. I used to improve the balance of my RC08 by sliding a solid vixen puck onto the secondary end of the bottom mounting rail. I will find a link to the item i used.

Edit: Here is the info on the item i used: Guan Sheng special dovetail mount adaptor FF561, A$29, from Andrews Comms. You can bolt on more weight if you need it. It's a solid billet of aluminium. if you use a Losmandy wide bar on the scope you could probably find something similiar or adapt it.

http://www.andrewscom.com.au/images/products/telescopes/accessories/gs_dovetail.jpg

[Somnium]

for some reason that takes me to the andrews home page, not the image ... weird. i get what you are talking about, however, my dovetail bar doesnt extend past the end of the versa plate. it is a truss design (i should have mentioned that) pictures linked below

https://www.facebook.com/618688161540178/photos/pcb.981406715268319/981403335268657/?type=3&theater

[Tandum]

The guide scope on top isn't far enough forward?

I went looking for photos of my setup, no luck.
Got a similar one, vc-200 on a side by side siting on an eq6.
The guider is way forward. Most weight is in the lens.

[marc4darkskies]

Here's my solution: Losmandy DUP slid into the versaplate plus a few farpoint counterweights attached to 2 dovetail adaptors from Bintel.

[Somnium]

thanks Marcus, that might do the trick

[Tandum]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=106751

I had this on the front of mine for a while.

I'm sure a forward mounted guide scope fixed it.