parallelogram mount for club binos

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:31 pm

well they came back to me about the shipping and its 169e shipping,
They knocked off 14.38 cos i asked not to ship the counterweights, we can get those here.
So that would be a grand total of 561euros for this mount, delivered, + I guess 20 euros for weights from a sports shop.
making 580e for the mount, god its bloody expensive!!
and thats presuming we can dodge customs ...

So, anyone find plans on the web to build one of these things ???

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:02 pm

I'm up for Franks Mate... Well thats the way we should go so..
Have a word with him and see what he say's...
that might end up better than anything
we might get on the web... Happy Days...

Check out this site and see what you think
www.bigbinoculars.com/obfork.htm

Tom done a great job printing up the posters...
So Dave and myself are gonna hit the schools
1st thing Monday morning with em...
We're also gonna hit a few more places for funds.

Cheers Roy

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:27 am

Who was the guy at BSP that had them?
That model was perfect.
We could either ask him for photos / specs
or search the web for a pdf of the instruction manual.
Roy, those ones in the link above are cool but
i dont think he'd want to go fabracating something so complex.

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:30 pm

That fork wont work lads, if you think of where your head has to be when looking near the zenith, you'll see he problem, same as the tripod we
already have.
I was even comtemplating mounting them on my LX200 fork, but again, the mount gets in the way when looking anyway up high.
When you look at the unimount closely, you'll see that there was a fair bit of thought put into its design.

I think the guy at the BSP who had one was Keith on the IFAS boards, he is the one that pointed me in the direction of telescope services for one, they told me it cant handle our binoculars weight

So back to making one using plans.... unless we want to fork out over half a grand??, we can afford it!, I supose the question I'm asking is do we want to afford it ??? I think I already know the answer.

I'm loath to he idea of making one unless we have very definite plans, we could end with an awefully heavy pile of shite.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:22 pm

Shur, I'll ask Keith has he specs and get a price off my mate.

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:26 pm

well isnt that the problem, what he has cant handle the 25x100s supposidly ?!?

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:06 am

oh right Ted.
missed that bit.
So,
(ala Hudson in Aliens;)
"well thats just great man!
what're we supposed to do now!?!

I've this mad idea to build
something out of PVC pipe
I'm surrounded by it..

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:01 am

Frank Ryan wrote: "well thats just great man!
what're we supposed to do now!?!

thats kinda my feeling about it aswell

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:07 am

This guy builds them or ships d parts.
Ive emailed him fir a quote.
http://www.astrowood.com/index.html

http://www.google.ie/m/url?ei=Upd8TZj0K ... yk7KfMI84w

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:09 am

Thats great Frank, it looks very good, does he do the tripod aswell ?
Hopefully he will have a reasonable price, if so we'll go for it immediately.

Dave.

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:56 pm

Hey Dave..

What about the tripod I gave you with
the 6" newtonian....
would that hold the weight???????

Cheers Roy.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:05 pm

Yeah he does but its all down to price.
I've asked him to itemise it all.
Anyway, I have an ETX PE Delux field tripod
(eg: not the flimsy one with the small ETX's)
that would be suitable.
Would easily take the weight.
Not sure Roy if the one you gave Dave
is up for it.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:09 pm

$340 Canadian Dollars ex the tripod +
shipping.

Hes coming back to me with a price on that.
we could use your trick of 'Furniture Parts' Dave

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:41 pm

The tripod originally with the binos and the ones you gave me Roy are not really up to the job, what price is he quoting for the tripod ?
As for my furniture parts, he is in san diego, fine if the shop is on the west coast.
Roy would your friend in the US be able to do it ?
Are there custums duty for gear entering the us from canada ??
Frank, would he be willing to mark it down as a gift or leave out a digit on the customs price ??

340 C$ is 252e

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:07 pm

Hey Guys...
They look easy enough to build..
Get the plans and email em to me
I might have a guy to put it together...
As for the tripod, surely we could source one
2nd hand from somewhere...

Cheers Roy