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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
You know anyone who's good at doing this..?  will you use copper or lead? 
Mike |
Hahaha. Yes good question.
Roof sheets are now on and about to order the cappings to finish it off.
Installing pier and some cables today. I intend to pin the pier down with 2 anchor bolts so if I have to rotate it to match south more accurately I can.
I'll install the PME mount today as well and tonight if I get all that done I'll do a rough polar alignment and if the pier is in the right orientation I'll anchor bolt it thoroughly tomorrow.
The roll off roof glides effortlessly - a first for my observatories. These wheels and the sliding gate tracks are terrific. First heard of them on this site so that paid dividends.
The combo is flexible, I can lock the 2 halves together as one and roll it off (maximum view) or split and have half roll off (similar view but a tad less).
I installed 6 overlatches to create that. Bunnings sells them. Well made and work well and easily.
I have quite a bit of left over beautiful Blackbutt engineered floor boards. I intend to lay that on the floor once everything it watertight.
It looked like I would have enough left over lovely marble floor tiles but I used them up.
Going for Australia's most luxurious observatory!
Greg.