On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 05:21 AM, Ray Gralak wrote: Hi Alex, Are the collision zones you mentioned in counterweight-up orcounterweight-down position? It can happen in a counterweight down position.

Jack, That’s a great looking tool. And I thought I knew everything ADM made and sold. Woody

Very well done Glenn! The Mach1 shoulders the 10" nicely. Don Anderson On Saturday, July 24, 2021, 12:13:51 p.m. MDT, Glenn

It wouldn't be too hard to CAD-up and 3D-print a slip-over knob that would allow for some additional hand force to remove a stuck knob that doesn't have the Allen key socket. AP's dovetail lock design

I find that the ADM Rosette Know Hand Tool works well for me: ADM Rosette Knob Hand Tool - TOOL (highpointscientific.com) Yours truly, Jack Jack Huerkamp Jack's Astro Accessories,

I totally agree with Jeff. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

Beautiful

A small strap-wrench would probably also work. They have lots of leverage and the rubber/plastic parts don’t mar the aluminum. But I’m confused. All my AP knobs have a hex socket in the

Just a beautiful image and work. You guys are skilled! Jeff

Really nice Glenn. I like the color treatment, it often gets overprocessed but you did it beautifully -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

I also use the grippers to tighten mine. I usually get a good 1/4 turn or more with them. Robert

Hi Gert Out of curiosity what is the part number of your dovetail plate ? The knobs look like those on my DOVE15 which has no hex head bolts in the clamping knobs either. I have had pretty good luck

Using a tool to tighten? You have to be very careful as to not over tighten. A few years ago I acquired a previously owned SB Paramount ME. The owner had mounted a 16inch RCOS on it and had over

The newer ones in the last few years all are tightened with a hex key besides just finger tightening. See their website. David

Thank you, Eric!

Beautiful work, Glenn. Your processing is amazing as well.

Hi gang, I had a stretch of good weather recently and was able to capture the elephant trunk with narrowband filters over several nights. This is one of three images I was able to do during the first

Mike, I just asked, he used a serial cable and on the third time succeeded to upload the database. The upload takes quite long, on the two instances I did it, I made sure PC sleepmode and

Hello All, I am not seeing a way to use the hex key. Has there been a production change of the knobs? Cheers, Gert

Joe, In APCC you can select the mount type, but you cannot select the controller type. APCC detects the controller by the firmware version returned from the controller. CP4's version strings start