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My scopes have arrived.
Despite the rating of the All-View mount I tried putting the 130mm f7 truely ED APO on it - with 2" diagonal and eyepiece it nudges 11kg and for visual use the mount works perfectly well.
I was thinking of buying a bigger mount but for now I'll wait. The All-View works well enough apart from the tripod being a tad flimsy.
While my 70mm f/6.6 is a heavy one (quad ED APO so it has a LOT of glass, plus a really beefy focusser) it looks quite undersized on the mount.
FWIW both these APM / TS scopes are beautifully built, the images are perfect and meet all expectations as premium refractors.
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