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Many thanks guys, Celestron really have great gear but lousy documentation and how to guides!
Will get it sorted as soon as the weather clears, and post a few piccys of my new permanent pier I built myself last week (45cm square by 8mm steel base plate mig welded to 1.3 metre high 140 mm diameter steel cylinder 5mm thick with machined aluminium scope holder bolted to a stainless steel top plate and onto the peir. All this is permanently bolted to a 160kg block of cement hidden beneath pavers with just the galvanised bolts passing through the pavers so if I ever want to sell and move I unbolt the pier, lift four pavers, cut the blots, put four fresh pavers in and you'd never know the scope was ever there!
Alot of thought went into the construction and fab, but once done it looks beautiful and stable as you could wish for. Then the rain came down since I finished!
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