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Old 05-11-2012, 08:30 PM
slowflow (Barry)
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12" Dobsonian read for good sky

Brian Nordstrom jumped in and helped me with bearing material, my mount has beautifully smooth teflon bearings. Thankyou Brian.

The base swivel bearing is a cheap teflon coated frypan cut into 3 pads running on laminex, interesting to see how long it lasts.
Oh, and the clouds are thick!!
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Old 05-11-2012, 10:57 PM
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Looks good.

Are you going to scribe setting circles onto the base?
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Old 06-11-2012, 03:58 PM
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I try without using the phone as a locator, if not sucessful then it is back to a compass & circles.
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