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Originally Posted by Tandum
I found it needed to be looser rather than tighter. If I could turn it with my fingers with no load it worked ok with a load.
A lubrication engineer posted on cloudy nights forum a while back that lithium greese seperates over time and fails. He also said the white lithum greese was designed specifically for cars so it didn't stain clothing. He recommended teflon based greese. I have looked around and can not find teflon based greese anywhere. I have been using ball diff greese for model RC Cars, simply cos I have some on hand.
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Teflon base grease may be obtained from a bicycle shop (used on chains) that's where I got mine from and used to replace my EQ5 grease.
link:
http://www.deanwoods.com.au/store/prod174.htm
Presently I've loaded my EQ5 with a side by side saddle carrying a 120 f/5 SW refractor, ED80 refractor, DSLR and a 60mm finder scope balanced up with two 5 kg counter weights. It seems to me I've gone over the mounts weight limit although IMO if things are strong enough and balanced correctly there shouldn't be any excess strain on the gears and motors.
