It seems there are many reviews and articles on the internet about the great innovations people have thrown together with regard to travel scopes. Unfortunately I am having great difficulty in finding any detailed plans or guides the depict with information that is easy to follow.
I'm looking for plans or a guide to building an 8" travel scope. Can anyone recommend a book for beginners...So i can work out how far to place the parts as well as methods to measure and put it all together...working out the mirror cell...counter weights...tension controls and so on.
Perhaps once I learn the basics of all those things, I can think about how to engineer something myself...or better understand some of the show cased designs on the internet...as it stands for me now...I have no idea what I am actually looking at, other than a portable truss dob.
The following briefcase scope is perfect as are many others:
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1115
But there is so much I need to understand before I can attempt to embark copying what I see on that link or most of the ones I come across for that matter.
No sense getting any parts until I understand how it all works...where should I start?