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I need a manual for Edmund Space Conqueror 4-14”

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#1 1939Dodge

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Posted 07 June 2020 - 11:01 AM

Does anyone have a Link or file for the manual For the Edmund Space Conqueror or Palomar Jr. 4-14” reflector telescopes? Thank you!



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Posted 07 June 2020 - 11:04 AM

Here's the Pal Jr manual:

https://wiki.telesco...cope_Manual.pdf

 

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Posted 07 June 2020 - 11:31 AM

I high school a friend of mine had one.  It seemed to dwarf my 60mm Tasco :)



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Posted 07 June 2020 - 12:10 PM

Thanks so much for the Pal Jr. link, that will get me started. Still would like to get a manual for the Space Conqueror, particularly using the eq. Mount and clock drive.

 

I appreciate all help! Thank you!



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Posted 07 June 2020 - 12:33 PM

Check this.

 

https://web.archive....taire/classics/



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Posted 07 June 2020 - 12:40 PM

Thanks so much for the Pal Jr. link, that will get me started. Still would like to get a manual for the Space Conqueror, particularly using the eq. Mount and clock drive.

 

I appreciate all help! Thank you!

If you don't find what you need online PM me I have an original copy  of the clock drive instructions with parts breakout I can scan for you.

 

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Posted 07 June 2020 - 05:55 PM

Does anyone know what the locking lever That engages two rollers on the clock drive  does? Anyone have instructions for the clock drive?

 

Thank you all for your help!



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Posted 07 June 2020 - 07:28 PM

Does anyone know what the locking lever That engages two rollers on the clock drive  does? Anyone have instructions for the clock drive?

 

Thank you all for your help!

It is a manual compensating lever that according to Edmund gives you 18 minutes of manual tracking without power.  

 

The Manual tracking compensating lever is a rotatable pin operating betwwen the two short cylinders.  It essentially is a universal joint and also the fine adjustment for tracking.  



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Posted 08 June 2020 - 03:31 AM

Extremely nostalgic thread for me. I hope you get your new scope up and operational 1939Dodge!

 

It took me a while to figure out how to use the EQ mount properly back in the late 60s with just the handbooks and the library as resources. Before that I'd just pick up and rotate the whole telescope...and this on the cast aluminum pier/three-foot mount (maybe 40-50 lbs or more?). I eventually added a clock drive that I spent a summer mowing lawns to purchase, and then built and added a 2" f/15 astrocamera (thanks to A.E.Jaegers) and equipped it with an old box camera that I modified by removing the original lens and some of the front panel (50 cents at a flea market) that shot on 120 (right?) Tri-X pan film; and set up a darkroom in my father's garage. I wish I still had it, but the vicissitudes of life removed it from me...

 

NOTE: Pic from a later Edmund Catalog. IIRC, mine cost $74.50...

 

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Posted 08 June 2020 - 09:11 AM

We must be the same age....

 

My father bought me a 

50 mm scope When I was 11 in 1969. When I retired in 2017 I started cruising Craigslist and picking up unwanted or derelict telescopes, and repairing them and giving to kids. I have 3 RV6s sitting in the garage now. I love the classics! And the weather has been great in Pa. lately so I’m not getting much sleep....I’m 11 again!



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Posted 08 June 2020 - 11:39 AM

We must be the same age....

 

My father bought me a 

50 mm scope When I was 11 in 1969. When I retired in 2017 I started cruising Craigslist and picking up unwanted or derelict telescopes, and repairing them and giving to kids. I have 3 RV6s sitting in the garage now. I love the classics! And the weather has been great in Pa. lately so I’m not getting much sleep....I’m 11 again!

Turned 65 last November and retired in December smile.gif. Also used to live in SE PA (Levittown, Morrisville, Bensalem, Limekiln, and Brownstown).

 

I couldn't help but notice one of the references given in the instruction manual was "Astronomy Made Simple" by Dugani. I still have my 1963 edition of that book! I also still have the copy of "The New Handbook of the Heavens" that came with my very first real telescope, 3" f/10 Edmund Space Conqueror.

 

Here are pix of the cover and a couple of random pages to give a sense of flavor:

 

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Posted 08 June 2020 - 02:19 PM

I love those mounts! I've had mine for over fifty years. I bought mine new in 1966 for the 6" RFT I was building back then. It was renovated a couple of years ago. I just used it last week!

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