From: Michael Lindner 
To: Dale Eason , atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Michael Lindner 


On Monday 14 July 2003 10:23 pm, Dale Eason wrote:
> I know that some have gone to a 6 tube truss but I'm
> not really ready to do that yet because I can't figure
> out how to attach it to the square mirror box.

Make an 8 tube truss, and leave off the bottom two truss tubes. You will
not miss them, unless you have a shroud that gets into the light path
without them. Advantages are a 25% reduction in wieght and you don't have
to deal with 2 different size tubes.

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