Building my own pier

[beamish]

That looks top ! Hard work I bet, but worth it.

The wife has agreed to letting me have a pier(or 2) and to cutting down a Birch tree( site of planned pier in the back) :shock: :shock:

Look fwd to seeing more as it develops Craig

Karlo

[gary1968]

Nice one Craig............. :hello1: Instead of buildingup ground level, why build a small area of decking round it?

Anyhoo, let me know when you want me armed with me 'Big Drill' and we'll get the pier top on.........

Cheers,

Gary

[blinky]

I did suggest decking but Susan does not want it It will be OK, once the paving is down and we can always lower the height of the top of the pier as well. Any night you are free just give me a shout and we can get started!

[blinky]

Well, Gary came over tonight and we mounted the pier head on the pillar 8) Really looks the part now 8) 8)

Still need to get it painted black but other than that it's complete

I am very chuffed with it, thanks again to Gary for all his help with this.

Here are a couple of images taken tonight, Oh! and we lowered the height of it a little and it is now purfect!!!

We did a polar drift alignment with WCS and then a capture of Mars with the 3X Barlow, everything looks sweeet! Just processing the Mars image now....

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[beamish]

looks great Craig !

[saturn5]

That sure aint gonna move.Nice one Craig. 8)

[Beyond_Vision]

Nice one Craig welcome to the world of semi civilised observing all we need now is to build an obsy around our piers

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

Well done lads, you can't beat teamwork.

It looks brilliant Craig, and it will make your imaging life a whole lot easier for you.

Great pics of a job well done.

Ron.

[G1ZmO]

Looking great Craig!

Maybe we should all descend on your garden one night to inspect it

Cheers

Paul

[gary1968]

Great idea Paul, and we can get hot fresh coffe there too............................

Gary

[dogfish]

Hi Craig

Gary was telling me all about this build yesterday. Between the two of you, you've done a fine job. Now, if the missus would let me have a pier in the back garden........hmmmmm.

Cheers, Martin

[blinky]

It is looking great, finally got it painted yesterday and stuck the HEQ5 head on it this morning (Too windy for the 'scopes!). One slight problem is the paint does not seem very hard and the HEQ5 head has scraped it back to bare metal! I touched it up afterwards but am not sure if it is going to continually happen I may have to get hold of some gasket paper and make my own gasket

Other than that slight problem it really is great, I will get some finished piccies up here one the weather is good enough for me to get everything set up.

[blinky]

Just noticed your post Paul Yes you are all welcome to come and see Gary and my good work Complementry Tea/Coffee will be available 8)

[SteelRat]

Done a real good job there Craig 8) Sturdy looking setup.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)