Optional: Baader 3“ rider clamp (Order No.: 2450316) with special bore holes and screws to fit Baader Stronghold base plate. Fig. 1: Top Mounting Plate Fig. 2: Base Mounting Plate Copyright Baader Planetarium GmbH, all rights reserved - 21 - Stand: 04/2010...
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Tightening the elevation- clamping-screw using the locking dowel The Baader Stronghold is designed, to safely and firmly mount and fine-tune auxilliary optics ranging from lightweight finder scopes to massive guiding telescopes. Four exterior locking screws serve to adjust the Baader Stronghold, by means of loosening (unscrewing) one screw and counterlocking the opposite one.
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A special 3“ rider clamp (#2450316) featuring two boreholes is required for mounting the Baader Stronghold. The 3“ rider clamp can be mounted onto the Stronghold top plate or base-plate. Please order the 3“ rider clamp in the special design including matching screws for the Baader Stronghold, by quoting order number 2450316.
Fig. 6/7: Clamping onto the 3“ dovetail-bar atop the Planewave CDK 17“, with Baader 3“ rider clamp 2450316 (not included in delivery), mounted on the base plate and EQ-clamp (mounted atop the top plate). Fig. 9 Fig. 8 Fig. 8/9: Customer designed mounting solutions Copyright Baader Planetarium GmbH, all rights reserved - 51 - Stand: 04/2010...
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The color anodizing of the Stronghold Tangent Assembly is as resistant to aging as possible using state-of-the-art methods of electro-plating. The color, nevertheless, may change slightly if it is exposed to UV-radiation for years. UV- radiation is exceptionally high if for example the Tangent Assembly is positioned in a window directed south in the same setting for years, being heated by the sun.
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