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Lester
27-03-2009, 09:39 PM
Hi all,
I will be recieving a Losmandy Titan mount in the next week, so I am advertising the Goliath EQ mount that has served me well since I bourght it new in 1980.

It comes with a Thomas Matthis 14" R.A. drive with bronze worm and synchronous motor. Also a dual axis drive corrector built by Claude Voarino. The mount is powered by 12 volt DC, so can be used out in the country where there isn't any mains power.

I will also include a set of Lumicon digital setting circles, ( I have never got these to work very accurately, due to me not mounting them precise enough).

The Goliath mount has 2" solid steel shaft on both axis. I made the 24" tangent arm for the dec axis that is powered by a 9 volt motor through the dual axis controller.

The mount has always been housed in an observatory on a pier. The purchaser would have to construct the pier.

I would deliver the mount to Adelaide for $2,000.00 or the purchaser can come to Port Lincoln and pick it up for $1,750.00 . If you want to see the Goliath working; come within the next week, or it will be dismantled to make way for the Titan mount.

Octane
27-03-2009, 09:59 PM
Lester,

Congratulations! I got the good news last night, too. :)

Regards,
Humayun

Lester
27-03-2009, 10:46 PM
Thanks Humayun, all the best.

Just to inform some on what I have had on this mount to show its carrying potential.
In the 1980s I had a 16" f4.5 Meade newtonian and 8" Celestron SCT, plus 5.5" Comet Catcher on the Goliath mount without any problems. Recently I have had a 14" LX200 and 4" Takahashi, plus cameras.

Lester
03-07-2009, 07:34 PM
I hope to have all the bits and pieces to fit my telescopes to the Titan this comming week, so will be dismantelling the Goliath EQ mount very soon.

I don't need to have this mount sitting in the shed collecting dust and would rather have it being put to good use by another astronomer.

You pick up from Port Lincoln and you can have it for $900.00