Where to get mount components.

kilian@timbuk.cray.com
Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:46:49 -0500

I am thinking about a fork mount for my 8 Inch, 57 Inch focal length telescope, and I am looking in Sky and Telescope for manufacturers of mount components.

Light Speed Telescopes has a terrific looking 12.5 Inch scope and fork mount, but he says that it's designed as a system, and he didn't think I'd have much luck getting just the mount. For example, he said that his 14 Inch empty tube only weighs 9 pounds.

Also Optic-Craft Machining looks like they have some nice parts and I'm getting a catalog from them.

Does anyone have recommendations good or bad for mount manufacturers?

-Alan Kilian