Still peeing down here in SA (heavy rain since saturday).
Gave me the opportunity to try and smooth out the dob base motion.
In the brief few mins I've had with the scope under the stars,I've found the motion quite sticky and abrasive - especially noticeable with a cheap 6.5mm Andrews EP!!! Darkplague used a TV Panoptic and a couple of Pentax EPs so the dob's motion might not have been as critical with their wide FOVs. But jerking this thing around with the cheapo EPs is no fun.
So I decided to do Iceman's Dob mod.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...19,116,0,0,1,0
Removed the old white teflon squares and replaced them with the same superslider discs(x6) from Mitre 10 ($11) and 4 milkbottle washers in the above link - darkplague already had a teflon bush installed so not as many milkbottle washers needed.
What a difference
Motion is now silky smooth - I hope this will be evident at the eyepiece when this bloody rain stops!!!
Cheers all
Doug
