Unconvinced by mount/clamp for my Tak

[Neil Mack]

Can you bolt the Tak clamshell directly to the Ercole mount, after removing the dovetail clamp? Tak uses a 35mm spacing for bolting its clamshells, the same spacing as on many Vixen clamps, and on two Teleoptic mounts I have used. Removing the dovetail clamp and bar removes a source of weakness, and moves the scope a few mm toward the centre of gravity of the mount.

[astro_al]

4 hours ago, Stu said:

Good to see someone else has arrived at the same sort of solution for counter balancing a giro mount  works very well, doesn't it?

It does! I can now pursue my new-found interest in Delos eyepieces ?