home built equatorial mount

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

hi .. does any one else have a home made job ?
i knocked this up outa push bike parts

please give a star rating ..i think 5 stars for the welding alone !!

i just purchased a c8 .. is this a good begginners scope ??
and do you think this mount will work ?
regards mick

p.s. i have a coupla uni cycles going cheap ... any offers

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Very nice sculpture....did you name it?.....cheers Kev.

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

hi mate was thinkin sorta ..mulga bills 4 a name ..you didnt rate
will it werk ?

[dannat (Daniel)]

looks great - what color you gonna paint it?

[Lester]

I give you a 5 out of 5 for effort.

Will it work?? With a C8, = I don't think so. Without the dimentions of the shafts of both axis, it is a bit hard to say though.

The C8 is a great scope to begin with. I presume your C8 is just the OTA, and no mount?

The first mount I made to put a 8" newtonian on, began swaying with just the tube and no optics. Your mount, to me looks far better than what I tried.

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

i was thinkin blue .. missus is a dogs fan ... or marone for manly .. i a tigers fan but .. I one manly in our work callcutta .. payed 35 bucks 4 them winner tAKES ALL $210 BUCKS .. GO MANLY .... MAYBE I SHOULD PAINT BLACK .. I DONT WANT REFLEXTION ISSUES WITH THIS ONE ... CHEERS

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

Originally Posted by Lester

I give you a 5 out of 5 for effort.

Will it work?? With a C8, = I don't think so. Without the dimentions of the shafts of both axis, it is a bit hard to say though.

The C8 is a great scope to begin with. I presume your C8 is just the OTA, and no mount?

The first mount I made to put a 8" newtonian on, began swaying with just the tube and no optics. Your mount, to me looks far better than what I tried.

BOTH AXISESES ???
I GOT 4 ? DONT TELL ME I REINVENTED THE WHEEL SO TO SPEAK ??

SO MUCH FOR RETRIGRADE MOTION I THINK I GOT IT COVERED !
THANKS FOR THE STAR RATING !!

[TrevorW]

I wouldn't subject a C8 to the ridicule of being mounted by this

[Rick Petrie]

Seriously "what the"

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

Originally Posted by Rick Petrie

Seriously "what the"

i showed you mine ... show me yours

[leon]

Here ya go,

Leon

[Rick Petrie]

Damn....I took an axe to mine!!!

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

Originally Posted by leon

Here ya go,

Leon

nice job mate
i can see me having another go at one .. i was thinking car stub axles ..
your angled base plate is fixed to match your lattitude ?.. and i cant see that concrete block moving

[GrampianStars (Rob)]

Mick
looks to be water pipes praying to the rain gods
something like this would be better.
Maybe the bike saddle set at your latitude angle mounted on a pipe

[Barrykgerdes]

I just took a look at Leon's

Now if he took an axe to that and took it down to an art shop and said it was aboriginal art he should get enough to by us all new mounts.

Barry

[leon]

Can't do that Barry I actually sold the whole set up to a fellow from IIS some time ago.

Have to agree though, I thought it looked quite handsome when the whole thing was set up.

Now I have to put up with, just a G11 and Tak.

Leon.

[TrevorW]

Leon great mount straight out of Edmunds "all about telescopes" built one myself 30 years ago

[leon]

Yep Trevor I got the idea out of a book, by another name, some 30 plus years ago as well, back in the 70's if I recall correctly. gees I'm getting old. after reflecting on those years.

Leon

[Barrykgerdes]

I built started to build an equatorial mount about 15 years ago out of 4" water pipe and the parts of a landcruiser diff I paid $10 for at motor wreckers. The RA and Dec axes were machined for preloaded Timken roller bearings and the main shafts made out of the axles. Boy those axles were tough. The Silicon carbide tool ran red hot in the lathe. I ended up welding mild steel collars onto the shafts to make bearing surfaces and cutting off the surplus with a cutting disk.

I never ever finished it and I think it is still rusting in the back yard of the old house. Mum unexpectedly gave back the money I loaned her to buy a house and I got myself a 10" LX200 classic with the then new 64000 objects.

Barry

[siriuslyfuzzy (Mick)]

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

I built started to build an equatorial mount about 15 years ago out of 4" water pipe and the parts of a landcruiser diff I paid $10 for at motor wreckers. The RA and Dec axes were machined for preloaded Timken roller bearings and the main shafts made out of the axles. Boy those axles were tough. The Silicon carbide tool ran red hot in the lathe. I ended up welding mild steel collars onto the shafts to make bearing surfaces and cutting off the surplus with a cutting disk.

I never ever finished it and I think it is still rusting in the back yard of the old house. Mum unexpectedly gave back the money I loaned her to buy a house and I got myself a 10" LX200 classic with the then new 64000 objects.

Barry

i am glad you didnt waste mums money ... so no pics of offroad equatorial i guess