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Argh, I only went online to buy a FLIRC (USB infrared keyboard dongle) for $30, spent $300 on the feathertouch microfocusser instead. They had a cosmetic second on the site, which will do me fine, the scope is a couple of years old now so is not comsmetically perfect itself. I am looking forward to being able to really snap in the focus. Now I guess I am committed to my current OTA, either on the standard mount on a wedge or remounted.
Standard on a wedge has some appeal, I am thinking of designing my own wedge to go on a pier and it can stay permanently set up once it is well polar aligned, leaving the scope free to go on the wedge in polar mode at home or on it's original tripod in Alt Az mode elsewhere.
Now to look at getting stainless steel bearing balls for the Az/RA axis, they use nylon ones out of the factory and they can take a set so the axis gets lumpy if unused for a little while, I have normally fixed that by rotating the scope on the Az axis a couple of times to warm the balls up and round them off again, you can hear the difference as they true up.
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