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Just a quick update for those who asked previously regarding the weight of the Serriurier truss OTA.
I took it off the mount tonight because I had to adjust a few minor things. The primary mirror cover that I made was a little difficult to take off because it was just ever so slightly larger than the available space between some protruding nuts and bolts at the bottom truss assembly. So rather than making a new cover I took out the mirror cell and filed the nuts down 1/2 mm each.
There were also a few scratches on the paintwork and on the wood stain from when I assembled it all, so I touched these up.
Other than that I've had no issues with the new scope, it's been a big success so far.
While I had the scope off the mount I weighed it and the measures are as follows:
OTA without mirror and finderscope (but with finderscope brackets): 7.85 kg
OTA incl. mirror: 11.85 kg
OTA incl. mirror and finder scope: 13.15 kg
The finder is an Antares 80mm and is fairly heavy at 1.3 kg.
With 13.15 kg all up this OTA is easy to carry for the G-11, and I'm very happy with that.
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