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Ahh, a good start, I thought you were destined to be the only IIS member without a GEM.
I have a scope the same as you, a 10" f5 newt. I have had this on a succession of mounts, from a G-11, then an EM200, and now an AP600E. All have handled it well, but more recently the scope has been to a weightloss clinic, and the result is about 4 - kilos of weight reduction.
OK, while I haven't used an EQ6 I feel (perhaps wrongly) that it will "only" just do what you require.
My suggestion is the G-11 at the least, sorry. But if you sell the tracking platform you will be part way to a G-11 anyway, especially used, so maybe think along those lines. My newt in the sonotube was about 14 kilos as an OTA bare. It is now about 10 and a bit. Plonk a guidescope onto that, then a camera, and a few other bits and I am well over the 15 - 16 kilo mark, and that is in the "skinny" version. It was possibly near 20 kilos before.
Like has been pointed out, the scope is long as well as heavy, and this taxes a mount as much as anything.
I suppose at worst try an EQ6 and be prepared to make do for a while, or see if you can try your scope on one, with someone else on the forums. In my case the dovetail and rings (Vixen) weigh heaps as well which doesn't help.
Gary
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