Oscarw

good evening all, 

i really need help.  

I have an old Skywatcher AZ3 mount with a missing part. It's a part of the Azimuth locking mechanism,  it the small metal square bar in the bottom right of the attached picture. 

if anyone knows the dimensions and material of the bar i could make one myself. 

I wanted to provide an update,

I bought a joblot for £160, it included

1. A Finderscope a skywatcher 6x30

2. relevation astro eyepiece kit with 9, 12, 15, 20 , 32 mm, barlow lens and some coloured filters, 

3. a 18mm BST eyepiece. 

4. An unused alistair lightwave premium  diagonal 

Thank you Zermelo,

After your advice,  I have been looking at an Astro Essentials finder scope 9x50 and  an SVBony zoom eyepiece 7-21mm. I feel this will give me the most versatility to begin with. 

Thanks again 

Mike

Hi dave 

Thank you for the advice, as for the mount, I think it is an eq2.

The only thing I was worried about was the lack of finder scope

Hi I am a begginer to astronomy and I recently bought a skywatcher evostar 90 (blue coloured one) from gumtree for £55. What I Haddenham realised from the add was there was a lot of parts missing from the telescope. It only came with a 25mm eyepiece, so my plan is to buy the missing pieces.

This is my shopping list so far (from amazon)

1. SVbony sv182 finderscope £39.99

2. Svbony sv137 x2 barlow lens £30