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Since many years I use my 1991 Vixen Super Polaris mount as travel mount to mount my Televue Genesis on it. So I do now during my Bali trip. The legs are replaced by lightweight 25x25mm hollow square aluminum profiles which saves 1 kg and as a counterweight I use a plastic bag with stones found locally so I do not need to take 3kg extra for the original counterweight. On the end of the counterweight bar and camera piggyback mount I can hang the stones bag on. I don't want to pay $40+ / kg for overluggage.

The question is now that on tropical latitudes such as Bali the axis lies virtually horizontal which results the barycenter of the mount shifts towards the counterweight (right on the photo) which results that the other two legs move easily.

Is there a way to work around this ? I already considered the iOptron Cube mount but that one has plastic gears / cogwheels and does not work without power supply.