Finder/Guider Holder

[lux eterna]

This cheap and compact tube holder allows for pretty good precision X / Y adjustments, and it also serves as a good grip carrying handle. Made from two different size alu U-profile, screws, nuts, washers, some teflon sheet and a few cable ties.

 

 

[RuralBill]

I have to be honest, that looks really fiddly to me, especially the up and down movement...much easier in an XY holder with a sprung plunger....

nice bit of DIY though

Bill

[lux eterna]

On 2016-07-29 at 17:36, RuralBill said:

I have to be honest, that looks really fiddly to me, especially the up and down movement...much easier in an XY holder with a sprung plunger....

nice bit of DIY though

Bill

Last night was first light for the guider holder, and I can honestly tell that it was so much easier to adjust compared to my old scope rings. And compared with a factory made tangential head some 260 Euro cheaper.

[Stargazer33]

Here's my new DIY Finder/Guider holder:

Ali tube with two free cuts at 12mm each off of Ebay; plastic M6 screws from Astroboot; Ali blocks and glass resin sheet 'rescued' from scrap bins at work.