[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

So ..how do you balance your mount. I just picked an appropriate weight and moved it down the shaft until I achieved balance and this was around the mid point along the shaft which creates a high inertial moment arm.

I recently read an article written around balancing your mount for imaging that suggest you place a heavier counter-weight/s along the shaft closer to the head and a lighter weight that you can adjust further from the head to make finer adjustments and this setup produces a significantly reduced inertial moment arm. This setup apparently provides optimum guiding.