Farpoint Dovetail Radius Block - Meade 8 Inch SCT

Farpoint Dovetail Radius Block - Meade 8 Inch SCT?

While these look nice and appear to be of high quality, I had to drill out both outer mounting holes on both blocks to allow the mounting screws to align with the holes on the OTA. I have a deforked 8 inch LX200 GPS. Maybe my OTA is an oddity, I don't know. I only needed the radius blocks for the top of my OTA, because I'm fabricating my own mounting plate for my imaging PC & accessories, which is why I ordered these. The radius blocks/dovetail combo I purchased for the bottom of the OTA fit very well, but did not have an option for radius blocks only. I would not recommend these radius blocks unless you are ok with the potential of having to drill them to make them work.

They aren't even compatible with Meade 8" SCT as advertised

When they didn't fit, I contacted customer service and they said they knew about the issue with some Meades. They send their fix which was two Celestron radius blocks that didn't work either. Don't believe what they say...cost me $20 to find out they are selling radius blocks that don't fit all Meade 8" SCT. Charged me restocking fee and return shipping. Buyer Beware of these folks!

FarpointAstro Radius blocks for Meade 8 inch SCT

I purchased these blocks so I could mount my 8 inch Meade SCT classic (deforked) to a Skywatcher EQR-6 pro. The radius of the blocks were a good match to the radius of the Meade. However, the screw holes on the radius blocks didn’t align with screws holes on the Meade. Using the left screw hole on the block, the right screw was hole about half a screw width off (to wide). There is a center screw hole in the blocks, and using that screw hole with either a left or right screw hole made a solid attachment to the Meade. With the blocks secured to the Meade, I attached my 14 inch Losmandy D plate to the blocks with no problems. From there, to the EQR-6 and everything works fine. I’m happy with the radius blocks, I’d purchased them again from FarpointAstro. A final cosmetic point about the blocks is the company name, FarpointAstro, is upside down.