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Originally Posted by Startrek
Greg,
The Az and Alt bolts on the EQ6-R are M12 so quite substantial
A lot of folk have criticised these bolts , in particular the rear Altitude bolt with lever , but I have no issue with them as your only adjusting a few times until your polar aligned. I just give my bolts a spray with lithium grease which helps a lot
Like everything you get use to using it , agreed the rear Alt bolt could be designed a little better but it’s current design was never going to stop me buying the mount
All mounts whether low budget or expensive have some kind of design deficiency
Yes I’ve seen a video of one of those discs falling off but I have 2 x EQ6-R mounts ( early and later versions ) and have used them for 3 years without any issue at all with the belts
Just remember this mount is only $2.5K not $10K . In my opinion excellent value for a well designed , good quality,reliable and solid mass produced 20kg class mount
Cheers
Martin
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Thanks Martin, that is reassuring.
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Originally Posted by Imme
I did the belt mod on mine (was still ok before I did it) and it runs well with approx 14kg on it (flt132 and other bits and pieces).
I have no trouble doing 10min guided exposures. I can’t recall last time I threw a sub out due to star trailing.
Meridian flips no worries with SGP
Plate solves fine (normally gets what I’m looking for on screen then hones in to centre on first solve)
The mount won me a Malin last year so it can mix it with the bigger boys toys.
For the price you can’t go wrong in my opinion.
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I thought the current EQ6r-Pro already had belts.
Greg.