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From: LOL! on 23 Jul 2010 06:44
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:32:21 +0100, bugbear
<bugbear(a)trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:

>LOL! wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3106559/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1
>>>
>>> I'm guessing astronomical mount and helical focusers have requirments
>>> way in excess of my tripod head - anything that works for them
>>> is gonna' be dandy for me.
>>>
>>> BugBear
>>
>> Guess again.
>
>No need. Anything good enough for a telescope mount
>will serve me well.
>
>I don't much care what you're using, and even if I guessed
>right, you'd probably just say I'd guessed wrong.
>
>You are therefore *not* a useful source of information,
>and the ATM community *is*.
>
>Sorry if this makes you feel unappreciated.
>
> BugBear

But you don't realize (your never having used expensive telescope mounts
before), that any grease that does not have the thickly viscous cohesion
and elasticity of that required by a photography tripod will be useless for
astronomical purposes. A grease like that used in tripods would be
detrimental to any tracking action required in telescope mounts.
Astronomical mounts need as little resistance as possible. A tripod for
photography quite the converse. Did you forget that I've been a part of all
those (astronomic as well as photographic) facets of optics before? I've
even refined and bettered a 250lb cast-iron tracking & goto equatorial
telescope mount for a 16" diameter reflector. This lubricant of which I
speak was found in NO function of that mount.

LOL!

Oh, this is priceless. Watching you crapshooting trolls flounder again as
you so often do.

LOL!

Go ahead, call me a P&S Troll once more. I love watching you all squirm
every time you do.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From: bugbear on 23 Jul 2010 07:17
bugbear wrote:
> Can anyone with experience advise
> on what disassembly is possible with
> these? There are very few screwheads
> or fasteners visible to undo.

Aside from our friend LOL
noisily not answering,
anyone got anything to add?

Oh, and before LOL claims I'm ignorant,
of COURSE I'm ignorant; what would
be the point of asking a question otherwise...?!

BugBear
From: bugbear on 23 Jul 2010 11:12
bugbear wrote:
> bugbear wrote:
>> Can anyone with experience advise
>> on what disassembly is possible with
>> these? There are very few screwheads
>> or fasteners visible to undo.
>
> Aside from our friend LOL
> noisily not answering,
> anyone got anything to add?

Heh. Courtesy of another forum, where
somebody mentioned (in passing)
that "Bogen 3047" was the name
in America for this component,
I ended up here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Apart-a-Bogen-3047-Tripod-Head

Thanks to anyone that tried to help (and LOL
for helping even though he didn't mean to)

BugBear
From: SneakyP on 23 Jul 2010 15:49
bugbear <bugbear(a)trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in
news:0badnX9Cz8rO-tTRnZ2dnUVZ7qCdnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk:


>> Guess.
>
> Or google, with the information you've given me.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> BugBear
>

I've had the *pleasure* (or pain) of using stuff on my outdoor LED
christmas lights to keep the moisture out of the circuit contact points.
It's found in automotive stores and used on bulbs. Bulb grease, or
dielectric grease, is fairly cheap and repels water.

Of course there's the other viscous petrolatum compound called Vaseline.



--
SneakyP
To email me, you know what to do.

From: Bruce on 23 Jul 2010 17:36
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:45:34 -0700, ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>Bruce wrote:
>>
>>High temperature-resistant white brake grease?
>
>Also called Lithium Grease


It might be lithium-based, but it is very different to the usual
Lithium grease which is brown and melts at quite a low temperature.

That type of lithium grease would be profoundly unsuitable for use on
the back of disc brake pads.

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