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Originally Posted by Marko of Oz
All suggestions are welcome of course, but I'm not much of a fabricator, unless I'm spinning the missus a yarn 
I like ready made, if the price is right. And now that I've put the idea out there we'll see if someone takes the bait and tries out the idea first. 
cheers
Mark |
Fair enough Mark - but when I say "dead easy" I mean "dead easy." All I did was present the plans, waited a day, paid $20, took it home, drilled a 4.2mm hole and tapped it with a 5mm thread for the bolt/set screw that became the azimuth spigot/stop. Hell, most places would've done that too for a few extra bucks!
But I was presuming you were going to have some sort of pier as per your original post: those collars you can buy for your tripod top from MyAstroshop etc don't turn your mount into a pier; they're still pain-in-the-butt tripods basically, that you've got to continually watch out for with your feet....! Even the "piers" that have 3 extended legs at just about ground height have that problem - in fact they're even bloody worse in that respect!
Cheers, Darryl.