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Originally Posted by Jeff
Hi,
I expect you have one of 2 possibilities:
1) You have some loose screws under the cover aligning your RA motor or RA axis bearings, causing your gears not to mesh properly (sound like the most likely, given the sound you have mentioned) ... or
2) The grub screws affixing the head which holds OTA dovetail are loose or stripped
I play with my HEQ5Pro internals from time to time to minimise play/backlash ... happy for you to bring your mount over on the weekend for a look if you like.
Jeff
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Hi Jeff
Appreciate it very much and i will take up the offer, im in Bulleen so only about 20 min drive from you. I'll pm you.
Originally the problem was a very very small amount of backlash coupled with the RA lock (this is the one on the body not the one on the dove tail holder, so i hope i got my terminology correct) needing to be pushed all the way to horizontal to lock.
What happened then is that i tried to see if the lock was working by pushing on the the mount and it did move but made a squeeky sound. I then released the lock and it still was making the sound as if there is still some connection (the squeeky sound and feeling of locking comes only at certain angle when turnin the head).