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Old 16-03-2016, 07:52 AM
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This looks very promising!
Both my transportable mounts (EQ3 and LDX75) have sensitive bubble levels and provisions for attaching the compass (mounted on a 1m aluminium 12x12mm "L" profile), so the initial setup always brings the pole close enough for fine adjustment with polar finder… which is a real pain (literary!).
As for the mechanical side of the procedure, if the mount is moved very often, to prevent the inevitable damage to screw threads it is a good idea to go further and replace the screws with ones with larger diameter and finer pitch (I used M10 with hex head instead of original M8, see here).
Some people even modified the elevation screw like this (with double pitch, coarse and fine), to smooth-up the process.
http://www.3ashop.it/articolo.asp?ID=4030

In the case of EQ6, it is a good idea to go even further and do something like this guy did:
https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/1...id-bent-bolts/
or this one:
https://alancatovic.wordpress.com/20...cija-postolja/

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