Posts Made By: jim lanard

I have a piece of equipment I can't identify. Heavy 2" (probably Barlow) . labelled Rini 4x. It appears to be finely threaded on one end. Help1

I have an Orion Atlas mount and use it with a 10" f4.7 Orion reflector and a 6" f8 (Meade) refractor. It handles the loads very easily and in a rather windy environment is nice and steady. Tracking is excellent.
The only drawback I can see is that DSC's for it are only made by one company and are about $200 more expensive than DSC's offered by other companies for non-Atlas mounts.
The R.A. drive is powered by eight D- cells and amazingly they seem to run forever. In a year I have only replaced them once. The mount is a winner.
my 2 cents.....