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Overall view of the completed
steel pier and wedge.
The assembly is attached to the driveway using 4 internally threaded 3/8" NC steel expanding anchors. The locating washers are designed so the entire assembly can be removed and reinstalled with little or no wedge adjustment. |
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Side shot of the wedge showing the altitude slot detail. |
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Front quarter view of the wedge. |
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Rear view of the wedge.
The LX50 has studs sticking from the bottom of the mount and the nuts are conveniently located on a magnet to allow for easy one person mounting of the telescope. |
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Here is a shot of my other pier out on the Whispering Ranch near the Vulture gold Mine south of Wickenburg AZ. I used the same construction as the driveway pier except I did away with the base plate and extended the pipe to 5 feet in length. It is planted in 5 sacks of concrete and is firmly tied to the Kalichi layer (it's an Arizona thing) |
| Instructions and drawings of the pier and wedge are available for download in a ZIP file format that includes all of the above pictures. | |