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Second plea: I'm now willing to accept much less than before. Will anyone simply measure the total travel span distance (overall height increase from lowest to highest setting) for their modern style (high profile adapter model, the one with no recess slot for the adapters set-screw) Visual Paracorrs tunable top? This is a non-destructive measurement.

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Lawrence:
Height of top of Paracorr w/o adapter, setting 5(low): 1.545"
Height of top of Paracorr w/adapter, setting 5: 1.920"
Length of insertion tube part of Paracorr: 2.39"
Height added to top when adjustable top is in highest position: 0.5" (Setting 5=0", setting 1 =0.5" up), each setting increases by 1/8" on smooth, even ramp. Setting 4=+1/8", Setting 3=+1/4", Setting 2=+3/8", Setting 1=+1/2".
I vaguely recall, when I was using Meade Series 4000 UWA eyepieces in the Paracorr, that the maximum depth of an eyepiece that wouldn't hit the lens in position 5 (the lowest setting) was 43mm (1.7"). I don't recall if that was being conservative so as not to risk the lens or whether or not that was actually the distance from lens center to 2" shoulder in setting 5. I do know that I could not use 1-1/4" filters on the Meade 14 or 8.8 (which had the same height of barrel, though it was the 8.8, I guess, that used position 5) without hitting the lens. So if you have one of those to measure, the distance to lens is definitely larger than that length.
I don't have any way to measure that distance without risking a scratch on the lens. Sorry.

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Don Pensack
12.5" Truss Dob, 5" Maksutov
Sustaining Lifetime IDA member, TeleVue junkie

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