How to balance a Swarovski ATX with 115mm lens

[roweraay]

Bringing an older thread to life, but I did buy the Swarovski balance rail for my BTX/115 and there was an additional, taller, plastic arca-swiss plastic adapter in the box, and with that adapter in the slot for the smaller 65mm objective spot, the 115/BTX balances without any interference.

The taller plastic adapter, would not mount into the 95mm lens' spot (with the screw hole visible), for whatever reason.

Maybe this was the "fix" Swarovski had in mind, when they found issues between the 115 and the balance rail.

 

[Amasaback]

Bringing an older thread to life, but I did buy the Swarovski balance rail for my BTX/115 and there was an additional, taller, plastic arca-swiss plastic adapter in the box, and with that adapter in the slot for the smaller 65mm objective spot, the 115/BTX balances without any interference.

The taller plastic adapter, would not mount into the 95mm lens' spot (with the screw hole visible), for whatever reason.

Maybe this was the "fix" Swarovski had in mind, when they found issues between the 115 and the balance rail.

Thank you for the update. is the plastic robust enough to be supportive? Does it work with the SOC?

 

[roweraay]

Thank you for the update. is the plastic robust enough to be supportive? Does it work with the SOC?

I think it does work just fine, but I don't look at this "solution" as comparable to a decent ground-up design. I look at it more as a "hack that works"

 

[David Bird]

A much easier and more affordable solution would be a couple of stacked cheese plate mounts like this: CAMVATE Multi-Function Mounting Plate Cheese Plate with 1/4"-20 and 3/8"-16 Connections - 1751 https://a.co/d/7lrEimy

You could just stack them like Legos. There are different lengths of plates and you could stack two smaller ones above the longer rail that would fit your specific tripod head plate.

There are also rubber rings for video lenses that you could put around the scope and then rest it on a pair of rails. This will necessitate some additional accessories.

Finally, does anyone have the measurement of the gap in the bottom of the spotting scope's objective lens and the tripod mount shoe?

Happy hunting to all or in my case birding!