[Wavytone]

Had a play with the Orion AltAz (Tee) mount at Bintel on Saturday, looks the same as the photo posted by Dave47Tuk, on a steel-tube tripod with a Skywatcher 150mm Mak on it. Had a look through it with a decent magnification to see how it responded to vibration (very good).

The Andrews page suggests 10kg load and I'd say its reasonable - and you might want a counterweight (another scope).

It was solid enough - better than most of the portable equatorials I've tried over the past 30 years. The axes were a tad stiff though I suspect with a little use it will loosen up a bit (or maybe some WD40/graphite will do the trick). Clutches were a big vague with respect to knowing whether they were holding or not, so balancing the scope will be important.

Unless you're doing imaging/photography I really just don't see the point in an equatorial head, for visual hopping round the sky this is fine. The mounts I really admire for simplicity are the "tablet" and "stack" from Bray Imaging, they claim they can carry a C14 on one...

Cheers.