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Old 15-06-2006, 09:19 PM
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Mounting Bracket for Accufocus to Crayford focusers

To follow up on my thread about the Adaptor to marry the Orion Accufocus to a Crayford (here) http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=10782,

This continuing thread is the method I used to Mount the motor to the scope.

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Originally Posted by janoskiss
How are you going to attach the motor housing to the scope?
After bending all sorts of bits of metal and not being happy with the result, I ended up trying a piece of PVC angle.

The pics below show you the bracket attached to the scope. I think it is very neat.

Pic 1: shows the PVC bracket

Pic 2: Marking the holes in the OTA (gulp) Notice the plastic protection over the marks, so when I drill, the drill doesn't skate all over the OTA engraving pretty patterns in the paint job.

Pic 3: I didn't feel like pulling the scope apart so I taped a Plastic bag inside the OTA to catch all the metal filings. It worked excellent!

Pic 4: The finished job

Accufocus works a treat.
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