hello Giulio,
you have a very similar philosophy to some of my colleagues. My philosophy is a little’ different: we say it is pretty easy for a technician “not the branch” like me, you find yourself thinking things already done. And the synthesis of mechanisms is something that brings, Topics covered in a long time, find themselves with almost everything already done. I say almost, because since I work for the developer of prototypes, if it was really all-all done the same technology I would have been fired
Anyway thank you very much for bringing your field of experience on this blog. Moreover, as you wrote, design without deadlines is really fun!
I will keep in mind the advice to put in abutment on one side of the tooth profiles of the telescope by weight. I was concerned as a solution because I have read of people who have found themselves losing the evening due to a movement of the pipe, once it exceeded a certain angle. For that alone probably insist on good old mechanism that I described.