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Geoff,
Erecting and collapsing the truss takes about 30sec each way in daylight and taking some care not to drop one of the segmented tension tubes onto the primary mirror.
It appears to hold perfect collimation between assemblies, bearing in mind this is an F6 system. I have only run it through 3 assembly cycles and a collimation check using a cheshire collimator indicated it returned to the previous collimation setting each time.
When complete assembly steps will be:
1. Removal from car.
2. Remove scope from carry bag.
3. Extend truss.
4. Attach finderscope and eyepiece.
5. Collimation check.
6. Attach shroud and dew shield.
7. Place carry bag back in car.
8. View.
I guess from removal out of the car to viewing should be no more than several minutes.
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