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? > >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. > >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. > > > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.