And here are the pix. Full OTA assembled, then the focusser cage with it's retainers for the slip ring, works quite well in it's crude format. Just grab and slide.
Then looking down the black photon bucket hole. The three shiny strips are the mirror support bars on their centre rubber mounts.
OTA side shot, cell from the back, few nuts missing there. The cell from the side showing the mirror supports on ther rubber mounts. Finally the central cage which holds it all together.
And we DID get snow !!! Flakes falling at work, almost totally unheard of in Auckland. Currently the sky is cold and clear, no, cold and cloudy, no, cold and clear, now it's raining !! .... you get the picture.
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