Portable variable height pier - luxury lad, luxury!!!

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by gbeal

Looks good Huff.
Didn't discover this thread until just now, maybe the hidden woodwork skills kept it from view, LOL.
Mine is "one height does it all", not adjustable but it sure would be handy.
Recently modified the screw down pointed piece, and swapped fromm "wide feet" that I had difficulty getting into the same spot each time, with a glued to the asphalt style.
Gary

YOU GLUED WHAT!!!!

ok how do you roll this out and place? do you lift the whole assembly up and over the bolt?

yes those hidden skills of mine almost got me into further strife with the wife. she now wants me to fix some things around the house

[gbeal]

Bit of "No More Nails" under three S/S washers. Now the "spikes" (I put a taper on them so they fit neatly into the hole in the washer) fit same place each time. Polar align once and then each night I roll it out, wind the screw spikes down, and I am on. Roll is via the castoring wheels. Spikes are to lift the whole shebang off the wheels.
I used to walk the mount out to a fixed in the ground pier, same sized steel water pipe as this contraption, but it became a chore.
Walk the mount out, go get the C/W's, then the scope, then the PC. Too hard.
This is a whole unit on wheels, and all I do is wheel it out, screw it down, and connect the AC cord to it. Imaging as soon as I am "synched" if that is what is required. If I have something smallish like the refractors and or the 7" Mak, I leave it all on for the duration, out, imaging, and in again. The biggest scope I have been using is the 10" F5, and I like to walk that in and out, as I don't want trouble.
Fixing things around the house is good, gets Brownie Points, and means you can requisition better tools.
Gary