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Lorne

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  1. Might as well add mine now all the mods have been finished, Explore Scientific 12" Ultralight truss, filled in cage with kydex, rotated focuser position to my preference, DIY light shroud and wheeled levelling base - which also raises the focuser height to save me bending too much to view. 

     

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  2. On 30/12/2015 at 10:21, ilya_astronom said:

    AstroAdam, nice to hear about it. By the way, I have visited your web-site and figured out that I had read your review about the scope. Thanks for the review and it helped me a lot in my decision "buy or not to buy" ;)

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    Me too... helped my decision in choosing my new scope! :)

  3. This is probably my 4th picture of my case on this thread, Moved on my SW Nirvanas and WO SPL's keeping only my WO zoom then adding the 3 ES 100 degree EPs

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    My 3rd picture was going to be my final*** case layout but this is it this time.....  :rolleyes:

    *** With my current scope anyway, and I've NO plans to change it  :p

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  4. Emad,

    Got the feet off Ebay, M10 levelling feet, after a few experiments I changed the m10 thread to m12 threaded rod welded on to the foot, this was attached by welding a m12 nut onto a piece of flat bar. A m12 knurled knob was screwed on locked in place by a locknut. The rubber swivelling castor was bolted onto the flat bar then the complete unit was screwed onto the wooden base (x3)

    Hope this helps :)

    L.

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  5. Here's mine, levelling feet and wheels for easy movement. Adds a few inches to the height but not a problem on my 300.

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    A close up with the Dob base in place

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    There are holes on the dolly to match the Dob feet to prevent it slipping off when I wheel it out from the garage into my garden.

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  6. Here it is.

    My DIY case (with an old dot printer head case and high density foam) containing my 6, 10, 12, 20 and 25 plus a Barlow 2x and the diagonal and two filters.

    The compass is just for decoration porpuses so, there's some space to be filled with something interesting for the future!

    Nice and neat job, looks good :)

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  7. This will be my 3rd different EP case pic on this post, I got a few additions recently for my collection which weren't going to fit in my original case, luckily Maplins decided to discount the larger case at just the right time :)

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    This will be it now, I misjudged when I cut my original collection of EPs down to the 3 SW Nirvanas, It left a few gaps that I felt I wouldn't use. In reality, there were times I missed "teasing out" that little bit more detail in my views.

  8. Looks great Lorne, some great performance to price ratio eyepieces in there! I need to update things again with my current setup. Who knew it would change so fast :)

    Thanks Adz, I bought the BSTs a few weeks ago from recommendations on here but due to lighter nights, **** weather and my shifts at work I havent had a decent chance to use them properly in anger..... bring on the dark nights LOL

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