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The trunions sit on HDPE pads (2 per side) the pads are 10mm thick and seem to ride pretty well. The hdpe might not be quite as slick as tpfe but it feels pretty acceptable to me, I might put a bit of soap on the trunions to try make the movement an little slicker. It isn't that it is sticky now, just the scope being so heavy makes the movement a one hand job instead of one finger job, oh the travesty.
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I think bearings or teflon (sorry, PTFE) grease on the pads would make movement easier but you need that bit of resistance if you want any chance of sighting any target I would imagine, unless motors and gears were involved. I'm guessing once that weight starts swinging it takes some stopping?
The resistance stops the unit running away from you when adjusting the RA.
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Overall I am very pleased with the build. Only drawbacks at this stage is the insane top-heavy nature of a tall mount like this
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Hence my mention of outriggers or heavy lead base. It's good you have a decent area to roll it though, that makes it much safer with the design and the height probably couldn't have been avoided with the length of the scope itself?
The build is extremely impressive!
Were I to own my own place and I had something extremely heavy I could leave on a more permanent mount but required moving to my viewing area and I had a decent concrete area to move it around I'd go rails. But my son is an absolute train buff (or was) and there would be a driven rail system designed whether I wanted it or not and, I'd go with it.
