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Originally Posted by Rerouter
lazjen, the software time on that is the only realistic cost, the hardware is not a large fraction of these mounts,
.........Again the more I look, the less I see the cost of the product in the hardware, and at this point I wonder about even the machining.
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Seriously?
While that may be true of cheaper mounts, I know for a fact some Losmandy parts go through about half a dozen processes after they machined before they can be installed into a mount and with some serious accuracy.
The worm gears are good to about 1/10,000th. And the RA/DEc gears are individually dialed in for perfect concentricity. That takes time and money.
I suspect the market would not be kind to cheap and nasty.