Hello fellow community members. I posted this in the Software Bisque forums but I know there's a few owners out there who might be able to offer some advice to me please?
Hi All,
Catchy discussion heading to make a light hearted attempt at what might be a serious issue.
I've done maintenance on my Paramount MX, taken the worm drives off and re-greased then put them back on. I think I need to replace the timing belts (the MX is about 4 years old) because I'm getting very little error on the DEC but RA is swinging between +1.3 and -1.5 error, giving me oblong stars over 2400 seconds.
So, I took off the cover yesterday and noted the belt's tension and cam shaft lock, undid the cam-shaft screw by about 1/4 turn, re-positioned it and re-locked it. All good. Then I looked at the grub screw above the cam-shaft locking screw and turned that about 1/4 counter-clockwise. Realised I was being an idiot and turned it back to where it was before.
Have I stuffed anything up? I tried to track afterwards and it could have been that it was a windy night (15-20km winds) but my tacking was terrible.
I'm going to take everything off, make sure there are no cables pinching anything, replace the belts and put it all back again but if I've stuffed something up by moving that small grub-screw then I might as well own up and figure out how to fix that first.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Simon Bailey.