OTA complete - dob mount next
Last night I got the OTA assembled. There's still some painting to do inside, but it's basically there.
Tomorrow, I'll get two soil pipe end caps for bearings. The plan is to make up some tube clamps joined together with a couple of plates into which I will fit a dozen or so threaded inserts each to allow me to move the bearings to various positions, as I don't yet know the final weight of the top tube. The rest of the mount will be pretty standard. All 18mm ply, tube rings probably doubled to 36mm for aesthetics and strength around the bolt holes. I'll run the bearings on a couple of squares of kitchen cutting board and go from there.
Not much sign of the cloud clearing or the wind easing this week, but the first starlight should be soon... :D
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