Hello!
I wonder why the Orion Accufocus is $30 more than the same-looking Skywatcher Accufocus at Bintel. By the way, this one is about $115 here in Germany
. But hey, they take $330 for the GSO crayford 10:1 focuser that is $90 in your country ...
The reason for writing is that I also adapted an accufocuser this week, an even cheaper one, the DK-TJ:
http://www.splendourtrading.com.au/i...15/remocon.jpg
that was also once sold by Meade as far as I know. It's about $30 here. It doesn't feature speed adjustment, but there's a clutch to coarsely focus manually. I'm quite pleased with it. Adaption to my 12" GSO dobsonian took about an hour. Just wanted to let everyone know such accufocusers are worth the hassle of adaption.
On a side note, I'm a keen reader of your fine forum, although I'm living quite at the other end of the world and your starry sky is so different (lucky *******s!
). Couldn't find a place to introduce myself, though.
cheers,
Michael
It only took a couple of hours to mod the mounting bracket to fit the Synta focuser and voila! I can foccus now without having the whole scope move off track. A liitle counterweight and it will be even better. Definitely a punt worth taking with fittings. 
to IIS Noice ......... Hope we see more posts from you
