parallelogram mount for club binos

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:22 am

Guys,
I was looking around for a mount for the binos the club has, and found these,
http://www.bigbinoculars.com/unimount.htm
and
http://www.telescope.com/control/access ... and-tripod
and
http://www.scsastro.co.uk/catalogue/vir ... -mount.htm
We neednt get form these sources, but I am keen to try and have one before the April observing sessions.

heres a quick review compariosn.
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=795

What do you think, does anyone here have the time and know with all to build one ?

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:08 pm

Nope.
I could I suppose but don't have any spare time to do it.
Did ye consider putting up a wanted ad in the fourms?

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:50 pm

Its such a specialised piece of gear, but hey, I'll throw one up on the ifas site and see what we get.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:49 pm

Thinking about it, it looks handy enough to
make out of timber.
I've a spare ETX premier field tripod that
Could be modified...
let me think about this a wee bit..
I'll be building a fence in the next few weeks
with Terrys dad who is a carpenter by trade..
I could show him some sketches..
is there a timber one anywhere on the web have u seen?

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:13 pm

no, but really we need to move on this in the next week or so if we want this for the start of April.
All good deeds aside Frank, I'd feel alot better getting one from a shop.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:30 am

Found a few plans for timber mounts..
not bad are they!?

http://brneurosci.org/binoculars.html

No probs at all dave,
I'd feel better too with us just buying one!

I also found plans for a bunch of astro stuff
that can be made from ABS pipe!! lol
http://www.pvcplans.com/pvc-pipe.htm
seeing as I can get my hands on this stuff and
all the bits at work, I'm gonna make a few things out of it...
Bino observing chair!..
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... irSide.jpg
funny lookin but looks comfy!

first thing...
this...
(Lol)

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:15 pm

Frank Ryan wrote: I also found plans for a bunch of astro stuff
that can be made from ABS pipe!! lol
http://www.pvcplans.com/pvc-pipe.htm

yea, he is like McGyver, but in ABS form

Gordon Lalor · Post by **Gordon Lalor** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:59 pm

Didn't we already approve getting a parallelogram mount at a committee last year?
It would definitely be nice to have for the public observing

Dave, that last link you gave to the english site are only selling the mount without the tripod, seems expensive because of that.

Cheers,
Gordon

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:52 pm

We did indeed Gordon, and youre right about that mount.

I asked on the ifas boards and was given a link to this
http://www.telescope-service.com/tripod ... #Binomount
Its a bit expensive but is a complete system, and I like it.
Right, I think Stephen has the Binos, I need the model number of him, if youre here Stephen, can you put it uphere in a reply.[/url]

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:26 pm

right lads, got a big problem,
The guys tell me in telescope services that their mount cannot handle the weight of the binoculars. Same for the orion mount !!
Also, the mount in peterson engineering is a no go aswell.
We're running out of cheaper options here.

I dont like the virgo mount as alot of the mount is below the binos, where your head would be if looking high up.

The unimount is a fine looking mount as it put the tripod and mount to the side of the binos, so basically you can get in under them.
I've sent an email to bigbinoculars.com to see what would the shipping cost would be. We're looking at 406e for the mount with some small extras with it.

what do ye think, can anyone find this mount in europe ??
(forget scs astro, their prices are truely astronomical!!)

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:49 pm

yikes! thats a lot.
But the binos are worthless
without a mount so.....

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:22 am

yea, thats my thinking aswell, we can afford it, but its not the scenario we wanted.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:25 pm

build our own?

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:49 pm

It looks like its gonna come down to that Frank..
Do you know anybody with the knowhow and time
that would do it for a good price?????????
Surely theres plan on the web for building 1...

Cheers Roy

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:42 pm

I do.
A mate of mine works as an engineer
for speedline engineering.
he'd knock it up for us as long as we
gave him decent specs.
Mates rates.