Posts Made By: Thomas Marshall

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day------------My feet no longer touch the Earth, Ptolemy c150AD. But for billions of us, our feet are on the ground, and likely landlocked forever, and for generations to come, - the same. While I think they could indeed build a pipeline thru the Dakota's and build it with redundant safety measures, I also think whatever "We have learned from hard lessons" such as Chernobyl and Fukashima is not enough to simply Green Light ALL things and say Okay-seems like you guys are getting it all together and deserving of our trust and admiration. I certainly do not think that people and groups devoted to issues of global warming or other environmental concerns have anywhere near the top of their list of motives, - some evil agenda to "extract wealth from industrialized nations thru a false narrative". Luckily, I do believe the world will little note or care what is debated on AstroMart Forums, in the long run. Certainly not on the geological calendars of the future that will define Mans impact on the Living Planet Earth.

After years of frustrating times with my finders on my scopes, I just recently took off the red dot's, and went with simple inexpensive hardware that works great. Two small camera ball wivel mounts on ebay were less than $10.00. Small conduit hangers at Ace's Hardware about $2.00, - Small "L" brackets" IF needed, - about the same, - maybe a few nuts/bolts. I put this on my C8 and AR102, - have not been out with the C8 yet, but spent about 5 hrs. with the 102 and it worked perfect. The conduit hangers can be bought to fit/hold any size dia. laser or finder tube. Use a wing nut to tighten/loosen the grip on finder to easily slip finder on or off scope for storage. The ball joints have a finger tightening flange also, so simply loosening a bit lets you swivel the laser up/down/left/right to point where you want, then cinch it snug, and the whole thing holds good unless you knock it hard out of alignment. Of course, like anything, you have to first aim scope at any object, - wall/lightpost/tree, etc. -center it, then just stand/sit down, and point laser to match and then you're good to go. Thru the night I would regularly click laser on to double check everything, - as once initially aligned I used goto to reach targets. Always spot on. No more straining into weird positions to try to sight in on something.