16" Lightbridge just assembled, want to upgrade!

I love this beast...it has JMI rolley wheels for eaay transport to the backyard with a wood ramp i made to go down , and up it. Easy as pie, even for a 128lb beast like this. Anywhoo...the smoothness of the movements is a little annoying, but i can get used to it. The bottom black tape around the bottom of the mount started coming off after i used it, the JMI wheel kept knocking into and rubbing up against it when i made stee turnes...gotta be more careful..i just glued them back with gorilla glue...any suggestions on black tape to put there that wont come off next time? lol

besides that, everything looks GREAT! Got a telegizmos cover, homeade light shroud, homeade dew fan, laser collimator, and a manual one, and a goniometer ty[e thing. Still got alot of reading to do. it seems reasonably well collimated already.

Anyways, i was thinking of upgrading it...turn it into the Blue Whale...or Blue Battleship....black truss rods and blue bottom and top base . Any special kind of spray paint i should use? Any other suggestions for mods? I use a metal cord attached to a weight that i attach to the back fan , when i load on heavy 2" eye[ieces and it seems to do the job for now...any other suggestions?
thank!!
-Mike

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mike selz said:
Anyways, i was thinking of upgrading it...turn it into the Blue Whale...or Blue Battleship....black truss rods and blue bottom and top base . Any special kind of spray paint i should use? Any other suggestions for mods? I use a metal cord attached to a weight that i attach to the back fan , when i load on heavy 2" eye[ieces and it seems to do the job for now...any other suggestions?

Mike,

You need to make a hemispherically shaped top cover to place on top of the upper tube when it is collapsed and bolted to the bottom tube for transport. It will look exactly like R2D2.