To: "Marco Miglionico" ,
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From: Mark Suchting 
Reply-To: Mark Suchting 


At 06:14 PM 5/01/2003 +0000, Marco Miglionico wrote:

>For my next project I am thinking about building a small  rotating
>'gun turret style' seat to mount my 11x80's onto. Where I could tilt
>myself fully back to the zenith and rotate 360 degrees.

You could save a lot of weight and hassle in the setup by tilting the chair
back somewhat permanently and have the binos in a  cradle with bearings on
either side of your head .  Allowing your neck to pan through 70 degrees (
which it can do comfortably) and put the center of rotation   just below
and behind your ears. You could still motorise both axis.

There is a commercial bino-chair at

www.starchair.com

You might get some ideas there.

~Mark Suchting

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