Hi Ken,
Many years ago I de-forked a 12″ LX200 SCT (1997 model). My solution was a bodge, but it did work, but was only stable enough for planetary imaging/visual work.
My solution was complicated by my desire to fit the system into an existing shed which was really too narrow for such a setup..
The main issue was the sheer weight of the 12″ tube (as heavy as a C14) and the lack of a dovetail…
I would NOT recommend my solution for long exposure imaging, but I did write it up for the Journal….
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2009JBAA..119..183M/0000183.000.html
Martin
PS, for some reason the link, as pasted, stops at ‘2009JBAA’ so the rest has to be typed in manually! But it was in JBAA volume 119,4, p183-187.
I have just created a Tiny URL instead…. https://tinyurl.com/yfh4xhdj
