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Hi Shane,
It's being an interesting thread you have started. Lots of very good views.
My 10" I built with the help of a friend over about four months, working on it every saturday about three hours at a time (including set-up & clean up at end of day). I made every component including the mirror cell, spider & diagonal using a simple telescope making reference book as a guide. I had purchased the optics & focuser.
As you can see, it is a very compact unit with the focuser board fitting into the mirror box for storage the whole thing being even smaller than a two draw filing cabinet. It holds its collimation very well & is silky smooth to use. It lives unobstrusively in a woredrobe.
Knowing what I do today about materials, the only changes I would make to its design is use a little thinner ply & alter the design of the diagonal to make it smaller & cut more holes in the rocker box. This would just be to reduce weight.
Its design also allows the addition of DSC's if wanted.
Mental
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