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Originally Posted by Lognic04
Now THAT is an idea!  |
Well its possible...most things are possible if you plan how to approach the matter.
You could be the dedicated dealer who sorts all their problems and takes the mount to being recognised as the best mount.
A specialist who is highly spoken of by the astronomy community for being someone who tests the product in the field and leads the developement of the mount.
I think the design is a superior approach it makes so much sence.
I designed a mount years ago that sort to incorporate the approach of carrying the load between two bearings, it was an updated English Equatorial mount in many respects.
Grendel ( a draughtsman and diy astronomer in the UK) a memeber here who we dont see much these days drew up plans and says he entered it some competition judged by some folk high up in the game and we took second prize..but being in England and the fact it was a English Equatorial I think their rivalry with Germany may have played a part in them liking it...I dont know more but I think it held promise.
So this mount has at least one feature that I see as a huge step past the standard German Equatorial and that is where it carries the load.
I never built one of my design but it also featured enormous "disks" in addition to bearings to make guiding more precise which I saw as another area for improvement.
Its carry capacity would have been measured in tons as I plannned using truck wheel bearings
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