[Hoges (John)]

From my personal experience of one G8 I would not recommend this route.

Thanks for the info, Geoff.

Your 600mm should give around 200 to 240 secs,

I wish!! Looks like I should strip it down a little and check/adjust where I can before I splash out on a new one. The other thing I don't like about the HEQ5 is that it's pretty jerky in it's movements when manually guiding - I often overshoot and it's 'oh sh$t, too far..press...press...press...that's better'

As for worm adjustement, it may or may not help, nevertheless, if you feel confident enough, here is a nice guide on how to do it: http://www.astro-baby.com/heq5-rebuild/heq5-we1.htm

Cheers, It sounds like I need to do this.