Tele Vue Ring Mount User Manual

RING MOUNT INSTRUCTIONS

Parts List

1) Ring Mount complete

2) Parts Bag including:
2 Studs, 2 Knobs
2 Allen (Hex) Key 5/32" & 1/8"

Parts Bag
Contents

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the Ring Mount for
your Tele Vue telescope. The Ring Mount serves
three purposes: Firstly, it provides a secure mounting for your telescope
to your Tele Vue mount, or to other mounts via adapters. Secondly, it
provides a means for fore and aft balancing when you change eyepieces.
Thirdly, the Ring Mount holds accessories, such the Starbeam finder or
Piggy-Cam, via machined channels in the top half.
The inside of the Ring Mount is lined with a thin felt layer to pre­vent scratching when adjusting balance and provide ample friction to
hold your telescope in place. The bottom of the mount ring has three
¼"-20 tapped holes appropriately spaced for all Tele Vue mounts.

Installation

1) Unscrew and withdraw the bat-handle from the side of the Ring Mount.

2) Using the appropriate Allen key, remove the socket head screw from
the other side of the Ring Mount.

3) Lay your scope in the bottom half of the Ring Mount

4) Lay the top half of the Ring Mount over your scope.

5) Put the socket head screw back in the hole in the top half of the Ring
Mount.

6) Hold the two halves of the Ring Mount tight against the scope tube so
that the socket head screw engages the threads in the lower half of the
Ring Mount. Thread just two or three turns to hold in place.

7) Put the bat-handle screw back in its hole and thread until the Ring Mount
can no longer slide along the telescope tube.

Mount Attachment

1) If you are using a Tele Vue mount, thread the two studs in the outer two
holes in the bottom of the Ring Mount and lock tight with the appropriate
Allen key.
(If you are using a Tele Vue adapter plate to mount your scope on an
equatorial, follow the instructions supplied with the adapter.)

2) Place the telescope down into the mount's cradle, so that the studs pass
through the holes in the cradle base.

3) Thread on, and tighten, the knobs to secure the telescope to the mount
head.

Balance Adjustment

1) When adjusting balance due to changing eyepieces, snug the mount
tension screws, or hold the telescope tube since the telescope will become
unbalanced when you remove the eyepiece.

2) Adjust balance by loosening the bat-handle and sliding the telescope
within the Ring Mount. Loosen just enough so the telescope slides with
force, but not so loose that it slips on its own. Re-tighten bat handle.

Accessory Attachment:

1) Tele Vue's Starbeam and Piggy-Cam fit right into the accessory slots. You
may attach other accessories using the #10-32 screw holes in the slots.

Accessory Slots
with #10-32 tapped
holes

Bat-Handle

1/4-20 tapped holes
for tripod mounting

Ring Mount
on Tele Vue
telescope

Vertical Tension Knob

Yoke & Cradle Mount
Head

Felt lining to fit
Tele Vue telescopes.

Telescope objective faces
towards left

Studs

Knobs

Lock Knob

Tripod Head

Cradle

Tele Vue

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