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Old 29-11-2013, 09:23 AM
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If the package purchased is one of the "cheaper" packages, then yes, the mounts as a whole tend to be too light. That is where manufacturers make their money by producing what in reality are inadequate mounts. Not to annoy, but to trim their production costs. The only way around this is to learn to deal with a flimsy mount or change to a more robust one.

The real down side of this is so many people get jack of having their scopes bounce around like a wind vane that they just give up on astro.
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