I just assembled my 12" dob
Can you believe that? I ordered it from Andrews yesterday morning and exactly 24 hours later it arrives! Cant complain about their delivery. I now have what looks like a silver hot water service sitting in the middle of my lounge.
Hey Ken, I'll take you up on your offer to answer some questions.
1. How do you move it around on your own?
2. I fiddled with the two screws under the focuser but dont quite understand them. (crayford)
3. Alt pans smoothly but Az is tight, can you use some silicon spray or something on the nylon pads?
4. Collimation, it was WAY out when I got it, I have centred the mirror by setting all 3 scews to same depth, but was then forced to adjust the three in the secondary to get the centre dot to come close to the middle of the eyepiece, I have now what I presume is a rough collimation but wont know how good until first light.
5. What mistakes did you make?
Dennis.
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