Upgraded New Solar Mount
The new saddle for my new SolarQuest mount arrived this morning... finally (USPS shipping is horrendous) ... so I spent a little time upgrading the mount this morning. I did a bit of work upgrading it yesterday too but I had been waiting for this new saddle to arrive for quite a while and I finally got that done this morning. In the photo, below, you can see the original saddle that came already installed on the SolarQuest mount. I've had some bad experiences with this type of saddle... the cast aluminum tends to crack and break eventually, the single bolt damages dovetail bars, and the single bolt isn't a secure as it should be... so I wanted to replace it with a better one to keep my telescopes as secure as possible. In this next photo, you can see the new replacement saddle. It is a much heavier duty saddle and it is actually a large clamp to hold the telescope rather than just a single bolt holding the telescope in place. Replacing this saddle was easy when the new