Hi all I just finished looking at Lewis's neat job on his Takahashi clamshell so I thought I would show my little repair job .
For starters if you dont know , I had a large drop of my EQ2 and LP 60mm triplet a while ago and posted the damage and repair of the LP's focuser a few weeks ago .
Here is the mount repair , yes I know its only an EQ2 but I have stripped , teflon bearing'd it , cleaned and adjusted it and it's now a great little grab and go setup easily carrying the tiny LP triplet .
These mounts are built to a price , sic. , CHEAP ! and the real weak link is those horrible tab's sticking out at the top each side of the dec axis , this takes that equally horrible bar
and not allowing a puc to be fitted at all , anyway one snapped off in the fall .
Nothing a bit of Gorilla glue and small alloy plate did not fix .
Next up a small 6mm plate shaped , drilled , threaded and counter sunk to bolt to the mount top thus being able to fit a GSO puk .
The finished item is way stronger than the standard setup and I am back to being able to drag the whole lot out for a look at the moon etc in zero time , great
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I know it aint no Tak. but its mine
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Brian.