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Originally Posted by erick
Well today I cut things, drilled things, fitted chains and sprockets and I have.............. manual remote primary collimation on my truss dob, hopefully from the eyepiece if my flexible controls are long enough. If not, I'll get longer ones.
Took it very slowly. Drilling holes in an SDM - yikes! Got to get them right first time - measure and check, re-measure and re-check.
My design worked. While I have added stuff, all originally collimation functionality remains and everything is neatly enclosed within the mirror box. Took me just under a year from bright idea to complete!
But as I finished, the rain came down yet again in Sydney - a heavy downpour then steady rain, after a glorious sunny day. So I didn't get to try it out. I will this week, hopefully.
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I got that beat.
My head was bursting with ideas for the 16" Lightbridge I bought in December '08. By October 2009 I was nearly complete and just needed to fit the Servocat Goto drive I had just bought. Real life got in the way and I never got to fit the servocat and still haven't nearly 3 years later!! I got the scope out once in early 2010 (Whenever the last Mars opposition was) and found half my mods done in 2009 needed to be re-done/re-thought. In the intervening time I re-thought my previous mods, know where I went wrong, know how to do them properly. I also thought of a plethora of new mods. I have a fully renewed brain bursting with modding plans.
.......Still haven't had time to start them
I am hoping that before the scopes 4th birthday I might actually have it finished and be able to start using it