[Mogin (Ben)]

Hi,
My wife just got me a Skywatcher 8" Dobsonian for Christmas. Its been correctly assembled, spotting scope lined up and is rendering superb images of moon, jaw dropping. It needs collimation - I'll get there.

My concern is that getting it from inside to outside is hard work and each time I move it, I kind of feel 'that was close, could have dropped it'. last night I picked it up by the tensioning handles. This felt way more secure than struggling with the base, but I feel like this is bad for the scope.

Anyone else struggle with this? How did you resolve the problem (pardon the no doubt well used pun).

Thanks
Ben