[pmrid (Peter)]

A short while ago, I said I would document the process of converting one of these plastic sheds into a compact ROR for use at my suburban location.

Here goes:

The shed is a Keter “Darwin” 4 x 6 (made in Israel and sold by Bunnings for $829 plus $90 shipping. It took only about 3 hours all up to put together and I was able to do it myself except for getting the last roof panel in place which required a second set of hands.

The external width is just 1250 and the available internal (after the mods I will be making) will be just a smidgen under 1100 after I install framing for the rails and runners so it will be a tight fit for a lot of scopes. I hope it will take my 8 inch newt which has an OTA of 900mm length. Overall height to the apex of the roof is 2050mm so I will probably need to define a horizontal home position for the longer scope.

I won’t progress to the next phase until the rollers I have on order from Amazon turn up which could be up to 3 weeks.

I’ll post some more when they turn up.

I’ll attach some before-and-after pics so you can see the space constraints I am working with.