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Originally Posted by NoTan2
How did you sew the lycra, Glen?
My wife tells me that her domestic sewing machine would not easily sew fabric like lycra.
I bought a commercial shroud - the one with the three vertical tubes - and have never used it (waste of $70). I find it too fiddly to fit and, because of the tubes, I can't leave it fitted all the time. Unusually for me, I didn't research it sufficiently and naively assumed that it was the same design as the Astrozap with the lateral ABS bands which can be left in place when the scope is collapsed.
I've been thinking of making one similar to the Astrozap but it might mean sewing it by hand.
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There is infornation online about sewing lycra. I did it myself with a cheap sewing machine i bought at a Salvo shop.
I used to have an Astrozap on my 16" dob but it suffered from droop into the light path. You can make your own stiffening bands out of ABS plastic. Just go online and buy a cheap electricians snake - used to feed cables through conduit or walls. You can join the ends with a piece of plastic tubing. Since they are naturally coiled the electricians snake makes a nuce round circle. Attach them to you struts or tubes using adhesive velcro.