DEC fine adjuster mod.

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After "fitting" a finderscope to my polar axis (RA) I found adjusting the DEC (latitude) a pain, as there is no fine adjust on the TAL 2 mount, so I made the following..

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Tried to line up the thread axis with the locking/slider bar

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This is very over engineered, but it was the only matierials available at the time (5mm socket head bolts and 6mm mild steel plate

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The finished article. Tried to be clever and put a 3mm bar throo the axis bolt, but it fouls on the DEC circle when the mount is at 0 deg lat. (storage pos).
Quick fix is just to remove the bolt for storage.

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