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Anyone put a Far-sight on to their Paragon mount or know if it is possible

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Funny you should ask. We were just talking about that yesterday at Sky & Telescope since my boss (Rick Fienberg) is trying to do precisely that. The answer is that it's easy as long as you have a tame machinist. (Ours is called Dennis di Cicco.)

You can't do anything obvious because the FAR-Sight, like any normal bino adapter, has a threaded hole designed to accept a 1/4-20 screw coming up from the bottom, whereas the Paragon's adapter has two unthreaded holes designed to take 1/4-20 screws going down into a block with threaded holes.

Probably the easiest solution would be to drill a long hole straight through the Paragon's block between the two existing threaded holes, then insert a long 1/4-20 bolt through it. You could do that, with care, using a hand-drill and a vice, though a drill press would work much better.

Dennis is planning to make a male-to-male adapter out of a block of aluminum, but that's a much bigger job.

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Tony Flanders

eyeglasses
6x15 and 8x32 monoculars
8x25, 7x35, 10x30 IS, 10x50, and 15x70 binoculars
70mm and 100mm achromatic refractors
4.5", 7", and 12.5" Dobs

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