Hi, Waiting for arrival my mount, I wondered what Pelican case would be suggested for the AP900. Handle and wheels might be an asset, to consider. I have seen a post suggesting it was a mistake to go

Actually, AP uses a special "LUBRIPLATE 105" grease. Shouldn't a tube of that come with a mount, and be available as an accessory. Or at least tell us where to buy it. I assume this was an AP "special

Hi Keith, Good question, I too was thinking about that last week. The trade off is you can use a smaller weight farther out - let's say near the end of the bar. In some mounts, with thinner counterwei

That's a good point, Mark. I hadn't considered the pivot point being overloaded. But if the pivot point is balanced on either side (OTA versus weights), then the amount of stress would be very nearly

... You're welcome ... ;-)

Hi, I just wanted to warn folks about putting too much faith in the way some couriers deliver expensive goods to you - like your brand new, very expensive telescope mount. My AP900 just arrived - in t

Hi Greg, The COD was to cover Canadian sales taxes (GST & PST), as well as a relatively small, perhaps reasonable, UPS brokerage service fee (and GST) of about $150 CDN. I posted this lament about UPS

Hi Keith, Glad you are aboard. As an engineer, I know that a good answer is sometimes not as valuable as a good question. The latter promotes discussion, and produces different, possibly better soluti

Hi Anthony, Does the US Postal Service "postman" ring the door bell, every time he delivers a $10,000 parcel? If so, I'm with you. Joe

Does anybody know of any "insurance limits" or problems, with the USPS or the couriers? I would hate to go into litigation for years over a $10,000 mount, as they try to figure out whose fault it was.

Thanks Marj, That is indeed excellent information. I forgot about the possibilities of not one government agency but also a foreign one mixing things up. I can imagine the bun fight there would be on

True ... but TWO UPS delivery men - on the same delivery order, both screwed up? What are the chances. And when I asked the supervisor to call - he thought it was just an isolated case of one guy. He

Hi Anthony, If so, the safe bet is to have Astro Physics bill you for the DEC assembly separately from the RA assembly. That would come in just under the insurance $5500 limit for EMS postal courier.

Anthony, The previous UPS delivery, a week before AP's, from OPT in California, took over a week. Yes, I really like the tracking system - it showed that the parcel was moving along every day, until i

Yes, they have a wonderful tracking service. Makes my PC very happy. I watched the UPS system track my AP900 order across the USA, through the Canadian border, Customs Clearance, and to the local UPS

Sorry, Anthony, my mistake. My rage got the better of my eyesight. I missed the extra "S". I would guess that is why they called their company UPS, so people would confuse them with the postal service

Maybe it's time to demand the shipping charges be returned, for UPS gross negligence. Actually, now that I think of it, when I complained to them that it took "over a week" for my other 3 day shipment

Hi, I recently received my AP900 and had a look at the DOVEM2 dovetail plate for my existing Losmandy DSUB adapter on a 25 lb. Questar-7 OTA. The AP dovetail doesn't quite mate the same way. The Losma

Hi Roland, Perhaps I have missed it, or it is already in preparation, but I would like to see the recent: Astro-Physics featured on John Ratzenberger's Made in America program on the Travel Channel Si