CG5 @ 1° N

Robin Lee · Post by **Robin Lee** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:05 am

Now our fellow Singastro members in Sg has a local driller.

orly_andico · Post by **orly_andico** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:14 am

only for M10 and M12 holes though.. i didn't buy the full tap set!

cataclysm · Post by **cataclysm** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:53 am

Looks very neat! Congrats on your successful mod.

kaomoo · Post by **kaomoo** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:02 pm

anyone else interested in pier for CGEM mount?

kaomoo · Post by **kaomoo** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:30 pm

collecting my CGEM pier tomorrow! yeah!

James Ling · Post by **James Ling** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:58 am

Hi Brother....

I just saw your post about collecting the incline pier......

Can you tell me who is making these incline pier, and how much is it?
Lead time is how long?

I am thinking of buying the Celestron CGEM mount ......

REgards

James Ling

orly_andico · Post by **orly_andico** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:53 am

hi James,

it is Mr Khoo Hua Seng whose company Xtrotech Sdn Bhd makes specialty robotics in Shah Alam for the car manufacturers. He is a friend of Robin (Kim Miau) who referred me to him.

the wedge is actually my design :-) There is a flaw in the design though (not fatal, but a slight annoyance) in that the wedge tends to rotate about the CGEM tripod base because it's not fixed in place. A minor issue but I have not gotten around to "fixing" the design flaw because... I already have my wedge.

Mr Khoo has been agreeing to fabricate these items as he is an amateur astronomer himself.

orly_andico · Post by **orly_andico** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:03 pm

I also got an ADM LosVix saddle for the CGEM for.. a hundred bucks (plus shipping).

Robin Lee · Post by **Robin Lee** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:37 pm

orly_andico wrote:hi James,

it is Mr Khoo Hua Seng whose company Xtrotech Sdn Bhd makes specialty robotics in Shah Alam for the car manufacturers. He is a friend of Robin (Kim Miau) who referred me to him.

the wedge is actually my design :-) There is a flaw in the design though (not fatal, but a slight annoyance) in that the wedge tends to rotate about the CGEM tripod base because it's not fixed in place. A minor issue but I have not gotten around to "fixing" the design flaw because... I already have my wedge.

Mr Khoo has been agreeing to fabricate these items as he is an amateur astronomer himself.

There is one hardcore thing about his history in ATM - he built a GEM from scratch.

kaomoo · Post by **kaomoo** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:08 pm

Back from Shah Alam. Mr Khoo is one cool dude. Getting his company to make the pier is like how Chinese saying goes "using cattle knife to kill chicken". We had lunch and chat about various things. And yeah, he build CGEM from scratch! good grief...

as for the rotation, I will wait for my mount and see for myself. I suppose not difficult to drill and tap an anchor screw in.