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Originally Posted by The_bluester
It is interesting, this thread is more or less talking about what I had always thought about mounts that don't have a counterweight. the movement of the COG would likely mean you need to have a quite solid tripod to put it on to avoid flexure or the whole lot potentially just falling over.
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Indeed. I use the AM5 on both an EQ8 Tri-pier and an EQ6-R tripod. The EQ8 Tri-pier needs no further support. Using something of that strength means I don't have to use a counterweight.
On the EQ6-R tripod though, I've added Geoptik spreaders and still use the counterweight.