Truss scope ideas

Our club is going to rebuild our big, heavy, and bulky 12-1/2" F6 dob (full thickness mirror). It's current form is a square tube made from wood and covered in plywood, impossible to move by one person even if it had wheel-barrel handles. We are going to rebuild it into a truss type dob and are looking for ideas (specifically on the truss tubes and cage). Our goal is not so much to have a scope that breaks down into several pieces but to lighten it up so that one person can manage to wheel it out onto the observing pad.

Can anyone point me in a direction (web or other) of some detailed photos/drawings?


Thanks,
Robert W.

Get the book "The Dobsonian Telescope" by Dave Kreige and Bill Berry. Avaialable at Willman-Bell ( www.willbell.com/tm/dobtel.htm )and also on the Obsession telescope web site. It will answer ALL of your questions.

Dave

Thanks everyone.
Some very good links. I have a couple of weeks before we meet again to go over everyone's ideas, I've got a lot of reading to do. :S


Robert W.