Since my last reply, one of the things I've been doing is anguishing over how to re-attach the plastic covers for the altitude/latitude axis...
I didn't want to simply glue them back on, but I can't think of any other way. So, I've resigned myself to gluing them, but not with a hard-curing glue in case I need or want to pop them back off in future. Fortunately, the cover with the markings re-seats exactly as it was positioned before.
Otherwise, the head has all or most of its other accoutrements attached...
For two or three days I hunted, to no avail, but finally I found the 7-pounder of the two counter-weights that came with the old CG-4(EQ-3). It also came with a 4-pounder...
Also shown is the 11-pounder that came with the new Meade head, just that one. Then, at the top, the 8.2-pounder that came with my old Vixen GP-DX head.
I should be all set, and to mount most if not all of my telescopes onto the new EQ-5 head. I do wish I could find a 2-pounder. Perhaps I can get by without one lighter when mounting my smallest of telescopes.
When I had gotten the Vixen GP-DX long ago, it came with at least that 8.2-pounder, if not a smaller one in addition. I can't remember. It probably didn't. But at the time, I did get these two 11-pounders in black, and now in rusty-black...
I had gotten those two 11-pounders for mounting my 8" f/5 Newtonian, but the telescope was too large for the Vixen GP-DX in the end. I did use one of them with my 4" refractor however...
The refractor does weigh about 11 to 12 lbs., so the two were well matched.
The Vixen 8.2-pounder was re-discovered several years later, then cleaned and re-painted. But I'm planning to strip it, and paint it another colour.