Heritage 130P (AWB Onesky) Upper assembly and light shroud

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******Updated design with new and improved Synta shoe, ring assembly back online******** ******Update in progress due to dovetail shoe failure, ring taken down for now****** To replace the entire upper assembly of the Heritage 130P telescope remixed using bckeck555s ring and focuser plate assembly. After several iterations and redesigns I am happy to release a complete upper reworking of Synta's Heritage 130P telescope aka Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) Onesky. This is a great little scope that I use as a grab and go, it's a 130mm aperture 650mm focal length f5 Newtonian reflector but it collapses to just 14" long when retracted. Being this is a truss tube design I had an issue with stray light reflecting off the secondary being my usual spot for astronomy is my back yard so I started looking into other mods people had produced to block the light and found several good ides but I had also gotten a 3d printer so "Why not put the two together?" I thought, The result is this. In my search I found bckeck555's various designs for this scope and they were gracious enough to provide me the original models they created to make a few of their designs, full attribution for the upper ring and the focuser mounting plate goes to them, I added the dovetail shoe and the shroud itself while also modifying the ring to have mounting holes and combining the ring, focuser plate and dovetail shoe into a single piece, the down side to that being my current design is to glue a focuser to the plate thus making replacement impossible without reprinting the entire upper ring assembly, but that's for V2. I felt it was important to keep the shroud and ring separate in case the shroud should ever shattered which I haven't experienced yet but have had these separate on the layer seams so I thought replacement should be easy