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Finished...yeah right! Now I have with this extra part. Courtesy of Stephen (Toranasaurus71) a 20mm thick shaft from an LXD55 combined with a bunch of discs and yet more dome nuts and brass washers. The old shaft was a bit flimsy so I came up with this which goes with the rest of the mods. Cut out with hole saws and jigsaw plus the usual hand fileing. Solid as a rock.
Thus endith this saga.
Wish there was a real Gothic script font, hope thats good enough Alex.
Lewis, I did think long and hard as to how to go about this retro re-build. Your comment is greatly appreicated. All I have done is totally reversable, should I or anyone else want to take the mount back to the 1880's. I did go a bit nuts with the Argo Navis encoder cages I admit...but in real life it looks so good.
The only part I could have done , might yet re-build, is the motor mount on the Dec axis...it's a bit cluncky. A motor wasn't part of the plan when I started the tangent arm.
I wanted to get a final photo of the scope up on the mount...Melbourne weather is not helping, but you all have seen it before.
Here is the new counterweight shaft.
On to my next project...a 2" shaft pillow block mount.
Matt
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