[bojan]

Dovetail adapter finally arrived, it took 10 days (including weekend and ANZAC day) for courier to bring it from Mt Martha to Mt Waverley....
If I knew this, I would have hit the road and picked it up myself.

Anyway, now I need to machine it to fit it to my old-style EQ6.

In the meantime I was thinking about how to clamp my 18kg contrete counterweight to the shaft.. and came up with solution: I will use 13mm hose extension clamp from bunnings (attachment)..
I only need to remove the central part (that goes into hose) and widen the hole to 18mm (which is diameter of the EQ6 counterweight shaft). The grip should be sufficient to prevent couterweight slide off the shaft (I tried with plastic equivalent ($1.50) but the grip was not strong enough).

And I will need 2 of those...