I think this thread is catching fire. Maybe too much Johnnie Walker.
I appreciate your feedback Aster but it sounds like you are far more experienced than the average user when it comes to pulling and putting things back together.
The machining manufacturing process in the losmandy mounts probably justifies the pricing. They are precision machinery. I mean time is money right? If you think of cast parts in most other mounts?
But I have no doubt you'd get very good result with an EQ6. In my case I'm not really after carrying huge weights either but after very precise tracking and getting a very good mount is "money in the bank".
I'm not experienced enough to know what a good mount is versus an average one so I went on to check a lot of photos on the web from different users, equipment, etc... So I did a visual comparison I guess, keeping in mind what cameras they used also to be fair. And invariably, the crispest sharpest ones had the word "Losmandy" in the specs somewhere. So that's telling me something...