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Old 16-03-2014, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by julianh72 View Post
A relative newbie's perspective :

I also understand how to deal with the "gimbal lock" effect you can get when the scope is in some orientations. (Prior experience with EQ mounts, and an Engineer's brain, might help here, of course!)
I have a 70's 8" newt on a eq pier mount that has a tube rotation mounting ring system so I can just spin the tube to a good eye piece veiwing position. It has adjustable tension bolts with teflon tips on the rotation system but I have only had to adjust them a couple of times in the past 20 years. I really dont know why they stopped making them.
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