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Have put a halt on the pier job and have taken a step back to review where I seem to be going with all my ideas about having a nice observatory and gear.
Rather than head too far down a path to end up with something less than what I would need, I imagined starting from scratch and I think the most common advice I see amongst the experts is to spend your money on the best mount you can afford as the centrepiece item of your set up. I decided that that centrepiece would be an Ioptron CEM70, so I bit the bullet and have just ordered one from Matthew at Telescopes & Astronomy.
I also realised that the pier I was doing up was originally designed for an NEQ6 so would need an adaptor for a CEM70. I have also ordered a new tripod head to convert my existing 2” tripod to give me functionality for the CEM70 whilst all my fancy observatory ideas get sorted and hopefully the new tripod head should also give me a pattern for making a pier adaptor.
So the powder coating job will just have to wait for now.
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