I cant wait to hear a pempro run, and hope you will report under 3 without pec on!! Congrats on the new mount. 2 weeks & 6 days to go for mine, but who is counting :) Dean

Hey all, The new 1200GTO arrived on Friday, was setup on it's pier with no trouble on Saturday and tonight I've run a couple 2 star alignment routines and it's fairly close. I'm going out later to

Hey guys, just in case you're local and need one of these? I have for sale a Le Sueur Astro-Pier, 42" for an Astro Physics AP900GTO Mount. This pier is in excellent condition and will provide an

Tom, Awesome idea! I will do exactly that... James

It was great to see both Marj and Roland at AIC this year. What a mount! I got on the notification list which already had quite few noteworthy names on it. It should carry a large astrograph in Oz

is A bowed top plate seems hard to avoid with welding, yet at the same time realatively easy to remove with a power grinder. Since I'm anal about this I follow up with a tile tool and Carbo (standard

Great points Niels! As to filling the steel pipe - only the bottom of the pipe had some concrete go into it from below. However, there isn't much concrete in the pipe. I purposely chose to not have

James, Did you fill anything into the tube? Are you sure it is wise to weld it instead of bolt it? There is a danger that the plate will not be flat afterwards. Best regards, Niels Foldager

I know - first there was aperture fever, now there is mount capacity fever...! And it seems that while it used to be that the former drove the latter, I may be entering a stage in the disease where

Thanks Joe for the suggestion - I will use it! Once mounted, I am not planning on taking off the AP1200GTO until I get the AP3600GTO... :-) Yeah, pier height adjustability of my solution is the one

Hi James, In all that discussion about pier heights, I suppose you have considered that in the end it might be preferable to have the AP1200 saddle at a final height, such that you can flip the

Rick, Thanks for asking - I can see that my description is pretty confusing (it confused me too when I re-read it)... Just one point of clarification, - the pier is a bit tall because the floor of

In a message dated 10/28/2007 2:58:33 PM Central Daylight Time, J.Zeglinski@... writes: When your AP3600 eventually arrives, it will of course be taller than the AP1200, so it might be

James: What is the total length of your 12" steel pipe? Was that 7 feet (3 above ground); and your mount would connect directly to this pipe. Thanks. Rick.

:-) I am confident that the pier will outlast human civilization...! I am not quite sure what I was thinking... James size of tank wrote: will be

Whewww, Talk about a fighting chance ... with that hefty a pier, what size of tank assault were you expecting :-) Enjoy your "mounts" Cheers, Joe

Thanks fo the heads up, Joe! For the 3600, if I have to re-do the pier, it will be worth it! However, I think that I have a pretty hefty pier now... 4'x4'x4' concrete footer sunk in the ground, with

Hi Richard, I was thinking the same thing about the UPS delivery man :-) Joe

Hi James, Since you haven't gotten delivery of your AP1200 yet, I hope you haven't poured the concrete for your 1200 pier. You're going to need a bit more for the heftier 3600 pier. Just in

"Looks like it will come in between $19-20K, ..." Hi Marge, Does the price include lumbar disk/hernia repair surgery? :) Richard