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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
nice work Ray, i'm not sure i'd have the courage to attempt that, must've been a relief to see it all up and running as before.
cheers
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Thanks Russell. As far as I can tell, Tasco isn't set up to provide much support and Skywatcher seem to take the view that they will put the mount on the market and then lose all interest - so there were really no options other than DIY. Anyway, it wasn't as daunting as it looks and took under an hour all up - simpler than an EQ6 in many ways.
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Originally Posted by LewisM
Had a massive and sudden spike in RA last time out that would happen every 3 minutes. Opened up the GPD2 (powered by a Skywatcher Synscan GOTO kit) and there was a dark crud in the lithium grease I use - seems some insect decided to have a look and got rather squished. I keep my mesh pretty tight, so ANY matter is going to affect it.
Cleaned it next day and all good again.
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Thanks Lewis. It is surprising how little it takes to throw out a worm drive - about 1/100th the thickness of a human hair is enough to notice, so our bugs were quite sufficient.
regards ray