[mental4astro (Alexander)]

Hi all,

Do you have an existing dob mount that’s seen better days?

Do you have an OTA that you’d like to make more use of but don’t want to always set up your EQ mount?

Maybe what you need is a new dob mount.

I can custom make a dob mount for your existing OTA that will meet your particular requirements. Large or small, even table top. Can also be fitted with encoders and even servo motors (supplied by a yourself or a third party). A custom made mount could offer you greater rigidity, more stability, lighter, smoother action, longevity of use and great flexibility of use.

The designs followed strictly follow the principles that actually make the dobsonian mount work: material selection, rigidity of build, location of bearing points and balance. Too many commercially made mounts don’t follow these principles closely enough so the mounts absorb moisture and become unusable, use bearing materials or mechanisms that make the scope difficult to use, or are just a dog of a mount. If your dob’s OTA is unbalanced from the location of its trunnions, we can look at improving this too as much as possible.

If you have an existing solid tube OTA, the cradle is made such that you can easily remove the OTA from it and replace it back onto its EQ mount, and vice versa.

I will look to use as much as possible from your existing mount as both practical and to reduce waste.

The mount can be also delivered fully assembled or as a flat-pack. Price depends on the type of work required.

Below are some pics of some completed mounts, including my most recent for fellow IIS’er Dave2024 to replace the broken down mount of his 12” Lightbridge, with its old Argo Navis encoders replaced and new azimuth pivot bolt.

If you have any questions, please PM me.

This ad has been placed with the approval of Mike Salway.