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Many thanks for your comments Guys. Lots of fun building it, took a bit longer than I had hoped - usually does.
I am not happy with the appearance of the altitude trunions and I am planning to build new ones with 18mm ply inside and 18mm Blackwood facing on the outside including the spokes. I have a "spare" billet of Blackwood here but I am still working out how best to do this.
Finder is fabricated from a SurplusShed 80mm F5 objective lens, plumbing fittings, 2" drawtube from a GSO newtonian focuser, UO AMICI prism and an old Celestron 32mm Plossl fitted with crosshairs. The Mounting brackets are WO 100mm guidescope brackets. 12.5X80 with a 3.5 degree FoV. FoV is limited due to vignetting by the UO AMICI prism 20mm aperture limit. To achieve a larger RACI FoV with this objective requires a WO 90 degree AMICI " prism that weighs nearly 1/2kg.
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