The new, highly anticipated Baader Diamond Steeltrack is here now! Available from UK stock!
The Baader Diamond Steeltrack range of focusers offer a complete, high quality and high load manual or motorised focusing solution for refractor telscopes, Newtonian reflector telescopes and SCT (Schmidt-Cassegrain) telescopes.
See details below
Drive System:
- True diamonds form a micro-geared high precision drive system never accomplished before
- In comparison to conventional crayford or rack & pinion drives, this micro-geared movement has zero backlash, zero cogging, and zero flxure
- Diamond Steeltrack 2" focusers lift a payload of 6kg (13 lbs) straight up, without slipping, without excessive
bearing preload (bearing preload can be increased further if necessary)
- Bearing system utilizes unbreakable Instrument Grade Roller-Bearings instead of simpler Ball Bearings handles higher loads with greater rigidity and accuracy. No Teflon-pads anywhere
- 1:10 Stainless Steel fine-focus mechanism, ready for attachment of the optional Steeldrive temperature compensating motor drive system
- Detachable drive block assembly is reversible for right hand or left hand fine-focus operation and for attaching the Steeldrive motorblock onto Diamond-NT-Steeltracks for newtonian telescopes
- Shortest possible mechanical design achieves optimum balance between focuser height (backfocus) and
rigidity requirements
- Zero shift locking knob to precisely stop any movement without affecting optical axis adjustment
Telescope Adapters:
- Refractor-BDS (RT): Adapters available or under development to fit a wide variety of refractor telescopes (i.e. can be used even with a GSO Ritchey-Chretien. One of our customers used the (now discontinued) 2957085 adapter with this 2957210 2" RT Diamond Steeltrack focuser on his GSO RC telescope. Another customer used a current adapter 2957283 to connect it to his 8" GSO RC telescope.)
- Newtonian-BDS (NT): Includes Baader Versabase, for perfect fi onto most tube diameters.
Optional flt mounting base available soon
- SC/HD-BDS (SC/HD): Includes adapter to fi all C14/C11/C9¼/C8/C6/C5 OTA’s


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Above: BDS RT version shown with optional finderscope bracket and optional finderscope shoe.
Images for demonstration purposes only!
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CUSTOMER CONTRIBUTIONS:
Click on the Customer Feedback tab and read Graham Wilcock's review about this product and how he installed it onto a GSO8" RC. His pictures can be seen below.
