Paliadon

Hi Steve, I have made it so high so that I am able to build a deck around it. When fully erected (I will post pics shortly) I will stand and it will be a comfortable height. :-)

Looks great mate, look forward to a report on it! Quick question though? Why is it so high? The mount is at head hight so placing a bahtinov mask etc when at the zenith is going to be tricky???

Steve

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Okay, it's been a while, illness and injury has precluded me from doing anything on this project for over a year. back on top again and into it once again. I have posted some pics to this old thread to show exactly what has happened since I was last on here.

Hello to everyone that I haven't spoken to in a long time.

Here's hoping I can get a few pics of "out there" for you in the next little while.

For anyone interested. I have received my quote for the adapter and mounting plates, they have given me a price of $280 for the lot which I am happy to proceed with. The $280 is in Australian dollars too so make that roughly $125 pounds in the Mother Land. :-)

Mate, that is excellent. Thank you very much. Do you use a free CAD or if not, do you know a good free one. I should really start to learn how to do them. :-)

Hmm, just had to draw that to scale, but I am assuming the PCD you are looking for is approximately 240mm. The inside holes on the bottom plate are just to hold the bottom plate in the concrete so I would hazard a rough estimate of a PCD of 120mm. As for the adapter mounting holes on the top plate, they are the same as the adapter @ 127mm. The width of the two plates is 10mm.

Wow MrMoo, that is fantastic. Nice job indeed. I now see what you meant by the depths and the centers. makes much more sense to me, even if I am just your regular run of the mill lay person. :-)

Thanks again mate, hope you don't mind if I download that and throw in my file.

Cheers

Some good tips there MrMoo. Thanks for that. As for the material, I am getting the adapter made out of aluminium. As for the two plates, powder coated steel plates are going to see me through. The bolts that will join the two plates will be encompassed in a small bit of electrical conduit to hide the thread as much as possible and the mounting of the adapter onto the top plate will be done using counter sunk hex head bolts.

Love the tips though MrMoo, thank you very much.

@astroimpulse;at this stage it looks as though the guy I am going through is quoting roughly $200 Australian just for the adapter. Including posting. Will post the actual price when I get the invoice. :-)

@mrmool; hoping that is not a mistake on my end, I had a look and the 29.8mm measurement and it should be the deep part adjacent to the center hole on the sectional view. If you step it down with the corresponding flat edge on the plan view I am pretty sure it is still there. But thanks for the heads up... hot flushes now abating. lol

Well, the design has been sent off to the engineer. Here's hoping it comes back all nice and shiny with no errors.

Hi all, just a quick one for you really. I have finally, after months of deliberation, put pen to paper and committed myself to making a pier for my NEQ6 mount. I have drawn a schematic (no I am not an engineer so please be gentle). I am after some constructive criticism if at all possible. This adapter will be mounted to a 275mm 10mm steel plate and that plate will be attached to the plate that will be concreted into the pier itself. This is so I can use it to level the top plate should the need ever arise. The top plate will have 25mm long 12mm wide grooves cut into it on order to allow me to pivot the base slightly for fine tuning when finding SCP.

Anyways, all ideas and comments are welcome. Oh, and yes, I have read all the other threads on pier adapter design and tried to culminate most of those ideas into this design.

Cheers

Kris

Hello, I don't seem to have the ability to join this team as there is no link. Has this team been shut down?

Whoa!! Talking about dredging up an old thread. lol