Anybody got any comment on the new mount? I helped a friend put one together this week and although the tripod assembly is more sturdy and got less slack it seems lower to me with only one extension piece.
And the assembly of the mount to the tripod was problematic. I think we will have to shim this with some teflon to get a stable result.
There is a large retaining screw with a circlip and a shoulder which tightens against the mount but still leaves some slack in the overall assembly. We solved the problem on night one by using cardboard shim to try out the scope - longer term solution would be to have some teflon shims ( about 0.5 - 1 mm) Or could use that clear material for copying slides on a photpcopier., its a heat-resistant clear plastic.
I dont think we missed any bits or lost any big plastic washers.
Anybody else got a problem?
As another comment the locking screw for the base rotation went crossthread with no force whatsoever and got really banjaxed on the screwing out. Cracked the plastic, vice grips to unscrew, had to rethread with a tap.
So we got a few additional hours leisure activity fixing the thing.
Fixed now - friend is pleased and impressed with the kit, including the not wonderful lenses.
Another formerly interested person now outside in the garden in the cold looking through a skylux and asking questions that i cant answer.
I see they improved the crappy screws on the ra/dec flex controls - much better now and you can tighten these without pliers.
Nosmo
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