Pipe Mounts Almost Completed
In between projects, when I have a little bit of time and I'm feeling fairly well, I always go back to some unfinished little projects. Sometimes the weather interrupts a project. Sometimes my health interrupts a project. Sometimes other more important projects get bumped up in priority. In time, I always get these little projects accomplished. My health may require a lot more time than healthy people require but I always seem to eventually finish these projects. One of these projects that seems to be an on-going project is making a couple of homemade telescope mounts. These two adaptable mounts are not 100% completed just yet but they are close. They are close enough to being complete that I was able to test them a few days ago. That was a nice feeling! I designed and built two types of mounts... an equatorial mount (shown in this first photo, below) and an altitude-azimuth mount (shown down lower in the photos). I have a very lightweight telescope mounted on the mo