Re: [APML]: AP 1200 GTO Balance

["Wil Milan" <wmilan@airdigital.com>]

The Astro-Photography Mailing List
------------------------------------

>>When accidentally kicked which gives first - the mount or one's toe?
>
>Gene,
>
> Now that's an interesting question. One I felt had to be answered. So in
>the interest of helping a fellow APML'r I went out this morning and kicked
>my (unladened) AP 900 portable pier. I tried several kicks of varying
>kinetic force, from mild to punt. The results are as follows:
>
>  ouch!,  ouch!!, and OUCH!!!    :)
>
>Man, I love this hobby.


You failed to state whether your foot was hypered or unhypered, and whether
you have tried this with several sizes of piers to calibrate your foot's
response curve.


Wil M. :-)