The Vanguard 2000 German Equatorial MountMount Construction |
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| Materials | |
| The majority of the mount components are manufactured from an extensive range of sheet, strip, cast and extruded aluminium, steel and stainless steel materials. Most of which are machined as necessary to produce the assembly components. | |
| Castings | |
| Each mount starts life as a collection of over 26 high grade, gravity sand cast aluminium components. Due to the large size of some of these castings, they are made for us, in batches of 6-12 "mount sets" at a time by a local foundary. | |
| Machining | |
| The aluminium castings are close tolerance machined in batches by skilled engineers using modern digital read out machines. The castings are assembled and checked for both parallelism and alignment prior to any final machining. Once machined the castings are disassembled and serial number stamped prior to spray painting. |
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| Paint Finishing | |
| All components to be painted are thoroughly de-greased, masked and flashed off prior to application of the four point paint finishing process: | |
Acid Etch - Used to provide the basis for the next stage in the paint process. High Build Filler Primer - Remove any blemishes that may exist. High Grade Primer - Allows a fine surface finish to be achieved. Textured Epoxy (2 - Pack) Top Coat - A tough industrial textured topcoat that will last for years. |
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| Bearings | |
R.A. and Declination, large diameter pre-loaded precision ball type. |
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