Pheww! Keep in mind that this procedure is easier with two people.
I Almost dropped my Scope
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Pheww! Keep in mind that this procedure is easier with two people.
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Good save!
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Watched in horror once as my diagonal rotated in slow motion toward 180° South before the
Saved the
Praise be you prevented disaster.
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I have had my 150mm
During a viewing session I borrowed a friends TV Ethos and a few minutes later had it turn into a pendulum as the weight unscrewed the nosepiece of the diagonal.
Luckily there was enough threads left to keep it from releasing completely.
Blue locktite is great stuff
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Nothing worse than an unscheduled laundering of underwear....
Oh lucky man!
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My heart started pounding, kind of like fight-or-flight syndrome.SKEtrip wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:12 pm That will get the blood pumping!
Watched in horror once as my diagonal rotated in slow motion toward 180° South before the EP had been secured.
Saved the EP 1/2 way to the ground, this happened over concrete. Wonder what a fitbit would have shown for a spike?
Praise be you prevented disaster.
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I've had a couple of close calls.
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Scopes: Apertura AD12 f/5; Celestron C6-R f/8; ES AR127 f/6.4; Stellarvue SV102T f/7; iOptron MC90 f/13.3; Orion ST80A f/5; ES ED80 f/6; Celestron Premium 80 f/11.4; Celestron C80 f/11.4; Unitron Model 142 f/16; Meade NG60 f/10
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Luckely you were able to prevent disaster, I hope the handlebar saved the operation?
I have seen my share: eyepieces slipping out of their holder or falling from my hand, shattered diagonal etc. A friend of mine saw his 130mm ED Vixen actually "jump" out of the holder while observing. Strangely enough the tube was severely damaged, but not the lens.
You crawled through the eye of the needle. Glad you did.
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So glad you averted this disaster. It has happened to me once and it was almost as bad as my divorce in the heartache that I felt.
I know that if this were happening to me, while it was slipping, I would have been dropping the f-bomb at least a half a dozen times. and then after I secured it to the other side of the mount and was able to sit down, I'd have dropped the f-bomb again another half dozen times.
BTW, what the heck were you doing lifting the 152 by yourself?
This could cause traumatic stress,
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Been there, done that.
Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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very good it did not happen!
That's the reason why I am using my own (safe) way of mounting the gear, and why I have recently replaced the old Cullmann Titan CT200 tripod with a more robust Cullmann Titan CT 300. And the scope is rapid deployable, click-lock, click-lock, ...,
as the Cullmann system is click-lock, and robust like a tactical gear, but still light-weight.
Some sunshine needed to take pics and to post them here,
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But I swear it all happened in slow motion and seemed like it to 30 seconds to hit the ground while I cringed.
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Welcome to the "hands" team, NFL receivers got nothing on us.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0a ... f-All-time
My save looked like #7
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Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope
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But, also, way back when The Sky Searchers was in its previous incarnation, I read a story about someone who lost his telescope because he thought that he was adjust altitude or azimuth and came out of the cradle and hit the deck. The problem is that the control knobs are the same. It was a known problem in private aviation long ago. So, I made this modification to my Celestron 130-
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Glad to hear you caught it. Sad to say that fluttery OMG! feeling afterwards is all too familiar.
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