Re: Equipment report: Images of Gran Turismo knocked down for transportation

On Jun 29, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Michelle Stone wrote:

> Jay, I notice you are not using the Astro Physics case.
> Why? You could also demonstrate how the scope can be
> taken apart in three sections to go into an even yet smaller case.

The Gran Turismo OTA knocks down into three sections which
are collectively compact enough so that they can be arranged
to fit into a padded case that is small enough to check as
carry-on luggage on an aircraft. However, Astro-Physics does
not provide such a case; they ship it with the OTA fully
assembled, in a case long enough to hold not only the OTA
but also the extra metal caps for all three of the disassembled
tube sections. Each cap fits into a nice slot in the padding
of the case, beyond the end of the dustcap, and the space
for those extra slots (four of them) adds perhaps a foot to
the length of the Astro-Physics case, over what would be
necessary to hold just the OTA.

I leave the extra caps at home in the original case, and
carry the assembled OTA in the ScopeGuard case, which -- being
a foot shorter -- is much easier to handle, and much easier
to fit with other things on the small back deck of my Honda
Insight.

I will take some more pictures and put them up, if there
is interest, but probably I won't get around to it for a
while.

-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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Jay_Reynolds_Freeman@No-Spam
http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site)

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