Weight Drive - No Eelectricity Required

You can take this drive to any Starparty and you never have to worry about Batteries, chargers ...etc

Surprisingly for Observing they were quite accurate.

All you have to do is adjust the knob on top to achieve the correct drive speed and away you go. I recall that you get just over one hour guiding. At least one doesn't have to worry about power surges as gravity is constant as it pulls the weight down.

I notice that this unit is missing the component that protrudes upwards from the gear box on the left. The rod that extended downwards from the worm gear box dropped into that missing component. Was it removed?

Interestingly enough, it seems like the rod is not in the picture.

Unfortunately they just don't build weight drive systems like this anymore. They have become collectors items.