Andy McK

Not sure, I'll have to check

mine is also the same except the EP's are a push fit, no locking screws

Mine is the same except the locking nuts are slot head screws...

Yup, inside of my Tal 2 OTA is the same. apparently the groves are supposed to minimise adjacent light getting to the primary. I'm also thinking of painting the inside, I'm not sure if the grey used to be mat black ??

I had the same problem with mine, rubbed it all down and gave it a couple of coat of "White appliance" enamel paint.

I'm guessing circa 1995 ish.

Stop it, u make me blush so. I suppose the good thing about having an older scope, you (I) dont mind so much, drilling and banging away. If I had a TAL200k, maybe a different story, duno (:)

That looks like a totaly different setup to mine, give me 5, i check

As in, does the mount drop into the pier? yup, slip fit.

Pain I found, when polar alignin' I get Polaris bang on, nip up the locking screws, but because the "V" in the pedistal bit is not "on center" as u tighen up, az drifts off a bit, so u have to allow for it. "guess"

Andy, when I first stripped this cluch to change my RA bearings, I noted the washers were at the top, next to the screw heads. In my opinion, they really needed to be on the plate end. not sure if it makes a diff, just seemed better for the plate and spring ends