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Yes balance is the bane of my life, not with a dobsonian but an errant LX200. I have a fishing sinker in the left arm of the scope because some fool engineer did not think about the extra weight in the right arm and how that would affect the overall balance of the RA axis. And to top that off, nor did they think about designing a 2D counter weight system. Thats what you get when there only a few people working in the the R&D dept that are into astronomy. Anyway the magnets idea is a good one. Pity I can't use it as nothing is magnetic on my scope. Good news is that the guys at Bintel are developing their own 2D system and that will make me happy.
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