Hi SAS guys n gals:
A friend of mine wants me to repair and perform maintenance on a very cheap telescope so she can give it to her niece. It’s on a German Equatorial Mount, but the mount is missing the shaft where the counterweight goes. It looks like a half inch thread, but it isn’t, so I am assuming that it is a 12mm thread. Is there anybody out there with a mount that is no longer being used where I can cannibalize a shaft from???????? If not I’ll locate and install a 12mm threaded rod, but it would be nice to have the threaded shaft so that it’ll be smooth where the weights go.
Thanks,
Baldy
Jeff Baldwin
Lathrop, CA
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I think that’s 16mm, about 15.78mm. I think it’s too big, thanks.Is it for something you’re using?
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Is that a spare, is it to something?????
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I have this shaft
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Douglas Christensen
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Douglas Christensen
Public Outreach Coordinator
Stockton Astronomical Society
209/462-0798 (American Sign)
209/471-1674 (Cell)