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Posts Made By: Greg Granville

August 16, 2003 05:25 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Orion's new intelliscope line

Posted By Greg Granville

So, I wonder what the Alt motion is going to feel like on these scopes? It seems they've completely abandoned the traditional Dobsonian alt bearing approach. It looks a lot more like the little spring loaded friction clutches we had on Newts 40-50 years ago... They usually had a lot of "stiction" (jerky movement) when pressure was applied to move them.
It will be interesting to see how they've overcome this.

-Greg