Have been working away steadily each day afterwork on the rebuild.
Laquered
the secondary cage, completed the spider and attached it. Painted the black surfaces and started construction of the finder holder. Going to use a Celestron First Scope
as a finder with a red dot finder attached as well.
Built the focuser board. Had lots of advice
from Mental4Astro.
Last night Mental4Astro and I went to a park in Dover Heights to determine the pole length using his ingeniuos
method.
Tonight after work I cut the poles with his pipe cutter. Many thanks mate! Then I had to have a try.
WOW!
It works! Spent a few minutes collimating with laser and I'm stoked!
Still have altitude bearings, rocker box and ground board to go.
Think I'll call it Tantulus. The name "Tantalus" is the origin of the English verb "to tantalize". There are some other sinister references though to this name but I'll stick to tantalize.
Hope to have it ready for July new moon at the Katoomba airfield.