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Originally Posted by codemonkey
I also learned not to tighten the worm end float too much. Astro baby's guide suggests tightening that until it binds and backing it off, but after moving the worm myself with it all open, there doesn't seem to be any value it tightening that nut beyond the point where it's not loose, beyond that the worm starts to move awkwardly.
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Whatever you do, don't listen to my previous advice here, I was way off. In trying to work out my dec issues I've discovered that the worm end float adjustment is in fact critical.
Today I backed off the grub screws that adjust the worm/ring meshing as I suspected this was too tight; it wasn't binding, but it didn't sound "smooth." After doing that, I adjusted the worm end float and found that, visually, the backlash is
massively better after tightening this up. May need to adjust it a little still once I get it under the stars, but I can tell by watching the end of the worm when I slew in dec that the backlash is way better.