Salad Bowl Ball Telescope

My 4.5 in ball telescope needed a mount, so I found a pedestal on Astromart, bought a 9.5in stainless salad bowl from K Mart, inside the bowl I used self adhesuive felt pads(6) and here it is!!!
The pedestal pipe splits in two, and everything goes in a stuff sack. It works great, and gets the scope off the picnic table.
This set works great for camping trips,when I leave the big scopes home for a rest.
Dennis

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Looks neat! The picnic table thing just doesn't cut it for me either. I made a three legged platform for my Astroscan too.

Looking at your mount, I wonder how teflon pads would work? Hmmm....perhaps a trip to K-mart today.

john