Well as the poor thing only ever got used for astrofest I managed to get an adapter made which will allow it to go in the doghouse observatory as the spare mount replacing the Titan 50 when it has its service. I also was able to adapt it to the Meade giant field tripod I have. So it's even more portable than before!!
So for all these years the original is still going strong. I added a V5 hand controller as well.