Shailesh, What is your scope’s Latitude? As you get closer to the equator, attaching the scope to the dovetail plate with its opened rings, begins to get dicey. It only becomes ideal at higher than LA

Hi Karen, Now I see ... in the KIT, those are actually all, in fact, desert “Dust Caps”, but I like to use them to keep any contaminants, wet or dry, off the pins. Makes sense now. I mistook the rubbe

Hi Mike, If anyone still has the original CP4 released WHITE case – consider drilling the two bottom corner holes, as Tony (a.k.a. Harley-Davidson) shows in his CP4 video. My original, like yours, i.e

Question to the group. Can anyone think of a logical reason to plug “drainage holes” with those rubber cones? Do we really want to make sure that any dew or other source of moisture leaking into the c

Good idea about using extractor bits, if the plugs are not “mushed” inside .. But, if the AP-900/1200 Delrin plugs are pushed in so far, that they “mushroom-head” into the space beyond the threads, th

I agree, Bryan. If I were to go with a dual lift PT3, and there was a possibility of any cold weather seizing problem, I would be concerned about one of the two piers, lagging behind its mate, unless

Hi Mike, I ordered the plastic caps set for mine. They really should come standard with any CPx controller, and the metal ones offered as a valuable option. Two things to keep in mind about sourcing t

Thanks Chris, For your link to Linak disti’s – I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that LINAK-Canada was so handy, only a couple of miles away from me in Toronto. One thing that concerns me is th

Hi Shailesh, I see good suggestions about stable, and also safe Park positions for stowing. However, I am somewhat concerned about stowing the telescope at other than Park-2 or Park-3. I assume there

David, I once had such “funny slew stuff” suddenly happening with my Keypad and AP-1200 – but with a new CP4, a few years ago. The previous old CP3 worked perfectly when hooked back up to either mount

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Ray, Just to be clear, I think that was a user resettable option checkbox, so should confirm it anyway in the AP ASCOM driver. Joe

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I think the note above Von Braun’s slide rule is appropriate. Recall the movie sequence in APOLLO-13, Tom Hanks is asking mission control to double check his gimbal angle corrections. The scene shows

Since I couldn’t find an original “wall-mount” slipstick, I just remembered an old Plan-B, of making my own. We now have the latest PC technology to do it very easily as a home DIY. The 6-foot, or pre

Congrats Barry, ... on finding that huge Pickett. Years ago, I was looking for one as well, and finally gave up. Settled for finding the Electrical Engineering Pickett model instead. Now, seeing yours

Hi Kent, I was at UofT ( Electrical Engineering - University of Toronto) 1965-1970 about the same time as you were in Texas. They showed me boxes of vacuum tubes in surplus storage, that the electrica

Maybe, I can somewhat top that, Don. First year engineering, Fortran punched card programs, on the big fish-bowl machine – an awe inspiring IBM-7094, long before the IBM-360, and which was the origina

Don Love it – dem’ was the days of real computing, unlimited memory, and engineering hard drive. Yours looks like the famous, highly desired ... K & E Log-Log-DeciTrig-Duplex “slip-stick”. Engineers w

Hi Mike, Nice job on your pencilled setting circles. I was thinking the same thing about perhaps AP providing “stick-on-tape” setting circles as visual aids for their mounts, as an option. That would

Jeff, Have you taken into account “wind gust temperatures”, on the worst winter days, where you plan on moving to a colder location? Perhaps, the mount & encoders will be at reasonable temperatures –

Brian, Everyone should also check that they have THAT special AP-provided TEFLON washer/disk, on the threaded end of the shaft. Otherwise, you may find the steel seized into the mount axis, very diffi