[bojan]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Bojan,
My scope weighs about the same & works fine with a modified EQ6.
Did you try a better counter weight shaft with your EQ6 as I did below?:
02-01-2017, 09:29 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/247194...in/photostream

cheers
Allan

Hi Alan,
I have thicker shaft for counterweight (30mm I think), this is not the problem..
When I put the whole thing together, I simply didn't have the feeling the mount is strong&sturdy enough, there was noticeable and slow swinging of the whole thing (on tripod.. situation may be better on pier, I have yet to try that)), that made me quite uncomfortable.
Also, for EQ6 "official" useful payload capacity is 25kg (~50kg with counterweight), and I consider this as absolute, short term maximum... 18kg is too close to that limit IMO.