Markus,
i read your blurb then clicked thru to the pics and exclaimed to myself "oh! you did very well!" a nice result for the PITA efforts.
I have recently been intrigued by equatorial platforms and see other Dobbers here are using them for AP.
Jerry Oltion's ideas are great.
http://www.sff.net/people/J.Oltion/flexeq.htm
Thanks for the efforts and for posting,
L