Looking to upgrade my mount

[RugbyRene (Rene)]

Originally Posted by Startrek

I’m pretty sure the new AZEQ6 mounts are belt driven like my two EQ6-R so backlash is minimal out of the box
I just tweaked the worm adjustments ever so slightly on my EQ6-R to eliminate the small amount of Dec play and it’s running beautifully. The drive belts didn’t need any adjustment at all, and still haven’t after 2 years of use
I don’t know if Rene has an older model or newer belt driven model AZEQ6 ??

I just had a look on the SW website & I think I have one of the older versions.

Rene

[The_bluester (Paul)]

All the AZEQ6 mounts are belt driven as far as I know, My Orion Atlas version is nearly 6 years old and it is belt driven. I bought that not long after they were released.

Regards the oscillating RA, I had oscillations in my ioptron CEM70G and counter intuitively I had to massively increase the agressiveness of the RA corrections.

[Wilsil (Wilco)]

Originally Posted by xa-coupe

You don't need to grease the entirety of the altitude bolts, just the parts that will be in contact with the thread in the mount. This requires you to unscrew the bolts way out whilst you keep an idea on which part actually sits in the threaded part of the mount body.

What grease are you using?