[Davelrkn]

Hi All
Was able to get out to do some further testing with this method with mixed feelings.
I decided to knock the mount off its Alt setting and know that you may feel that I was a little extreme in using a rather large adjustment amount of 7 degree's but wanted to see what effect it would have on doing the passes from Epsilon to Beta.
I did mark my Alt on the Mount with some cloth tape under the Alt pointer so I could return to to correct setting.
I found that after I had made the Alt adjustment I was not able to get Epsilon or Beta to pass through the crosshair no matter what adjustments I made to the Jacking Bolts.I felt that the amount of mucking around with the adjustments you may as well carry out a drift alignment.

In saying the above I did find that when I did adjust the Alt setting and gradually returned it to the setting I had marked each time the behaviour of Epsilon and Beta became easier to centre on the crosshair.

I still believe that this method does work if you have your Lat set accurately like from the drift method and if like me need to take the mount out each time and setup in the backyard is very handy for quick alignment.

I have now tested on three seperate times in setting up using this method have been able to obtain polar alignment each time but only with accurate Alt setting.
This is still try and error as I there are no guide lines to work with as it's not a method that has been done before

Maybe there's a reason for that

Cheers
Dave