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Very entertaining, Bebs. I've had many of the same experiences.

For your bino-mount, I ended up purchasing the Bogen tripod, but I drew the line at the parallelogram bino mount. I ended up building a parallelogram mount for about $30-$35 (varnish and fittings included) using these plans off the net -

Miseroy's bino mount plans

I substituted an upside down metal flour measuring cup and a 3/8" threaded insert for the base attachment. The mount turns about 40 degrees around the insert threads - enough to be useable. A nice piece of Jurassic era sandstone picked up off the roadside and 50 cent bungee cord serves for the weight. Later, I added an Orion slow-motion adapter ($30).

- Canopus56

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WOW....thanks for the p-gram plans...

That's exactly the kind of p-gram I have been searching for : simple, cheap, effective, and doesn't look too bad to boot. I will be building this mount soon and I will post the results. Boy, I better get the workshop cleaned up and organized....

MikeG

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Bebs, the part I floundered on was finding a cheap lazy Susan type base so the mount would rotate a full 360 degs. The plans refer to something called a "Keensert" - whatever that is. None of my local machine shops knew what it was.

If you come up with a cheap solution for a rotating base, please let me know. - Canopus56

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I had never heard of one either. I did some searching on the web and came up with the following info :

http://www.keensert.com/

Apparently they are some sort of "thread repair" kit or insert. I'm not on the finishing stages of MY WORKSHOP!

Once the workshop is ready, then I can get to work on that bad boy. I need to go back and look at the plans again, cause honestly I forget which part of the plans the "keensert" is integral to. Perhaps it can be skipped altogether.

I'll keep you posted.

MikeG

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Michael Gilmer - Member of the Meteoritical Society & Collector of Falling Stars.



Galactic Stone & Ironworks - Buy/Sell/Trade Meteorites, Moon Rocks, Mars Rocks, & 35 different falls and types!

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