10 May
2010
10 May
'10
7:53 p.m.
This mount is much larger than I had pictured it in my mind's eye. With the legs fully extended, it will easily handle my refractors. Tonight I learned that if you want to mount Orion tube rings on a Losmandy dovetail, you have to re-tap the rings with a 1/4-20 thread (the Orion rings are metric). No big deal. I suppose I could have gone in search of a metric allen screw instead, but lacked the patience. I have the 100mm ED on there right now and am getting ready to flip the switch. I've got a 2 amp power supply on-hand that works perfectly.