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Dennis, thanks
I have the CGE dovetail too - its the one at the top of my mount attaching the Meg via O rings to my C9.25. The Meg to the C9.25 seems pretty stable so I can summise the CGE is a much more rigid dovetail for two reasons:
1. Although it still attaches by 3 screws 1 forward and 2 at the rear, the two screws at the rear of the dovetail are 40mm apart on the CGE vs 20mm apart for the CG5 dovetail. This provides a much more stable and rigid coupling.
2. The CGE bar being twice the width of the CG5, with a curved base and flat top, has more metal in it and that makes it less prone to flexure in and of itself.
So these two factors combine to increase rigidity, although I intuit it is point 1. above that is predominantly determining rigidity.
Last edited by g__day; 01-02-2007 at 04:16 PM.
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