[AZ-Observing] Re: scope adaptation

Interesting. Never saw this idea at RTMC which is where I would have 
exptected to see soemthing like this first.
Stan

Joe Larkin wrote:

>What is the tube made of?
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>I'll assume sonotube.
>
>As a quick thought, a latch that compresses the pieces together will
>just be pushing cardboard to cardboard and this couldn't be stiff
>enough.
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>Perhaps some sort of "ears" that are firmly permamently bolted to one
>half and then bolted/unbolted to the other half might be stonger.
>Look at the split tubes from Discovery to see what I am talking about
>(http://www.discovery-telescopes.com/discovery/pdhq.html). Here's
>(http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=549) and example of a
>Meade modified this way.
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