Well, I finally got the last coat of varnish on the wood for my binocular mount and assembled it today – here it is! It was originally designed for the Vixen 30x125’s so in terms of size of timber used, it is a little over engineered for our 12x50’s which it will now be used for.
The bino head is an old alt-az head I obtained a long time ago, to be used with a small telescope, but its movement were too jerky for the higher magnifications used with even an 80mm refractor. For the x12 bino’s the motions are smooth enough due to the wider field.
I built the tripod (an old project from a few years ago) for my Vixen GP mount so I modified the head and will now use it for the bino mount.
The tripod was built from “Meranti” and the parallelogram is from oak (so I am told), scavenged from scrap left over from a neighbour's recent renovation.
Very nice Dennis, by the way did you catch any flies?
Ha ha Ron…I was in the middle of murmuring, through clenched teeth, “take the photo quickly darling, there are 16kgs of bino hanging like the sword of Damocles over my head”…..
Doesn't get much better than that Dennis, life is okay huh
Hi Ron
The photo is for show really, to demonstrate the over engineering of the mount and how we can easily configure it for different bino's. We will mainly use the mount for our 12x50’s and will continue to use our heavy tripod and the Vixen fork mount for the Vixen giant bino’s.
With the giant bino’s mounted on the parallelogram, it takes over 5 seconds for vibrations to damp down whenever you touch the bino’s. They would probably not be very useable in a moderate wind? It is also quite intimidating sitting underneath 16kgs of heavy metal and glass, praying that they don’t slip and smack you in the head.
Although we can handle the Vixen’s on the mount, I would not use these for public viewing, as it would be far too nerve racking to unleash this cantilevered weight on anyone who is unfamiliar with the operation and limitations of the design.
They would probably not be very useable in a moderate wind? It is also quite intimidating sitting underneath 16kgs of heavy metal and glass, praying that they don’t slip and smack you in the head.
On the other hand it could be a fast track method of entry into the television show, "Most Amazing Medical Stories", I saw a bloke the other day with a long steel rod through his head
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Very nice mate. 
