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Assembly  
1. Components
        2. Folded Truss Assembly
        3. Placing the Truss Assembly on

    the mirror box
4. Securing the mirror box brackets

    to the mirror box with 1/4 X 20

    thumb screws. Threaded inserts

    are installed in each corner to 

    accept the thumbscrews.
5. Placing secondary cage on the

    upper truss brackets
6. Installing thumbscrews in the 

    upper truss brackets with

    1/4 X 20 thumbscrews  
10 - inch f5 Folding Truss Dobsonian

as featured in the February 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope