[Nico13 (Ken)]

Hi all, finally carried out a little mod I've been meaning to do for some time.
EQ6 owners will know how the counter weight shaft doesn't lock rigidly when extended and I've often thought how when part way through an imaging run the shaft could slump to one side as it rises.
This a problem more so when imaging in the south as you may well start with the counter weight shaft almost at the six oclock position.

Well what I've done is made a threaded sleeve and press fitted it to the shaft clamp and then fitted a screw in shaft of 20mm dia so when screwed in place it's quite a bit stronger than the 17 odd mm shaft and more importantly very very rigid, no side slop.

The 20mm shaft came from an old Super Polaris mount I have sitting there it's also a tad longer when fitted.
The Clamp lever is there for show now as it doesn't do anything anymore.
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