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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Rob,
Based on my ten years experience with Meade SCT’s.
You will always have some mirror slop, due to the baffle and the unique Meade focuser pin arrangement.
I found running the mirror through the focusing range (30 turns) regularly re-spreads the grease on the baffle and reduces movement.
Even with the mirror lock (on a 12” SCT) there were issues.
The Meade rear micro focuser #1206? Worked reasonably well for me, the MAPUG site has details to build a separate handcontroller.
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I used to manually focus and then lock the mirror (I have a 10") and I always used the microfocuser, and it was not a big issue for me, however, because I'm deforking it, that seemed to me to be a bit of a problem as there's no where to plug it in.