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tripod
Raymo,
My sad history with the tripod. I bought the mount and tripod new with the Mewlon.
Set up in daylight to align finder and scope as per Takahashi's instructions, having done up the screws on the legs reasonably finger tight. Suddenly the south leg (supporting the counter weights) just collapsed. I thought that I had not done up the screw tightly enough so I did it more tightly. This allowed me to make the alignment.
So it came to set up for viewing . Again collapse, so I put worm drive clips on the lower legs beneath the castings of the upper section.
This worked for several sessions of setting up. Then one evening the thread in the south leg casting stripped.
The threaded hole passed through a void in the casting. No wonder it stripped. I complained to Claude who in turn complained to Tasco and in a short time a new tripod leg arrived in Kojonup, points to Claude.
I put in the new leg, but the original rubber washers were not replaceable (where the leg fits into the mount). I resumed using the mount, with the worm drive clips which stop collapse but won't help wobble in general.
With the new leg in place I disassembled the failed leg with the idea that when I next had time in Albany I would get a 10m helicoil to produce a spare leg. BUT all the legs have depressions where the tightening screws press on a small plate captive in the casting, the legs are just not heavy enough, alfoil comes to mind.
All up, really shoddy.
Chris
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