Hi everyone, I just received my new 'C' type tripod adapter for my 16x70 binoculars and a Giant Mars Eye finder and have posted some shots of the set-up on the utahastronomy.com site. The whole rig works very nicely and stays fairly well aligned when adjusting for interpupilary distance. If you've got a pair of 11x80 or 15x70 or 20x80's, the 'C' adapter is a great investment...I'm very pleased. No more futzing trying to sight along the barrels. Dave B. http://www.utahastronomy.com/album11
Dave, that's great. What'd you pay for it? It's almost a clone of my own C-bracket, but I use a Quickfinder instead of the gunsight. Do you remember it from Binopalooza? Now all you need is a parallelogram! C. --- David L Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just received my new 'C' type tripod adapter for my 16x70 binoculars and a Giant Mars Eye finder and have posted some shots of the set-up on the utahastronomy.com site. The whole rig works very nicely and stays fairly well aligned when adjusting for interpupilary distance. If you've got a pair of 11x80 or 15x70 or 20x80's, the 'C' adapter is a great investment...I'm very pleased. No more futzing trying to sight along the barrels.
Dave B.
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Hi Chuck, yes, I thought the adapter was very much like your 'C' bracket...I guess that's why I moved so fast once I saw it. The price for the C was $36 from bigbinoculars.com compared to $29 for their heavy duty L ... Thanks, Dave On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 08:52 AM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Dave, that's great. What'd you pay for it?
It's almost a clone of my own C-bracket, but I use a Quickfinder instead of the gunsight. Do you remember it from Binopalooza?
Now all you need is a parallelogram!
C.
--- David L Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just received my new 'C' type tripod adapter for my 16x70 binoculars and a Giant Mars Eye finder and have posted some shots of the set-up on the utahastronomy.com site. The whole rig works very nicely and stays fairly well aligned when adjusting for interpupilary distance. If you've got a pair of 11x80 or 15x70 or 20x80's, the 'C' adapter is a great investment...I'm very pleased. No more futzing trying to sight along the barrels.
Dave B.
I'm glad you posted those images (besides it being a cool, useful product) also because I've about got the design nailed-down for the 3-arm parallelogram for the 25x100mm binos. They use the bar-type mount, that connects the hinge to the objectives. And I hadn't remembered to provide for a finder! You're absolutely right-on about a finder for the big binos, it does speed things up considerably. I think I recall a similar finder on one of the Grahn's big bino set-ups. C. --- David L Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
The price for the C was $36 from bigbinoculars.com compared to $29 for their heavy duty L ...
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Chuck, You willing (and/or have time even) to make any more of those C mounts for a better price than what Dave paid? Rich --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm glad you posted those images (besides it being a cool, useful product) also because I've about got the design nailed-down for the 3-arm parallelogram for the 25x100mm binos. They use the bar-type mount, that connects the hinge to the objectives. And I hadn't remembered to provide for a finder!
You're absolutely right-on about a finder for the big binos, it does speed things up considerably. I think I recall a similar finder on one of the Grahn's big bino set-ups.
C.
--- David L Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
The price for the C was $36 from bigbinoculars.com compared to $29 for their heavy duty L ...
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Rich: Right now I have a little time. The price always depends on how good a scrounger I am, being a bottom feeder. I had just enough of that extrusion to make one (the one on my aluminum parallelogram) at the time I made mine, and right now the cupboard is bare. If anyone knows where to get 2"x6" aluminum channel cheaply, (Siegfried?) we can make all we need easily. BTW, I'm back at work on the original model parallelogram, with tripod, and hopefully can crank out a few this winter. It will accept either a C bracket or an L bracket. C. --- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Chuck,
You willing (and/or have time even) to make any more of those C mounts for a better price than what Dave paid?
Rich
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