Must admit that was a terrible mess, i would have thought you had a paramount under that load
I found the SBS bar a waste of time like fred said it introduces flexure and a whole kit of weight! I run the findger guider in its native state that is how you would pull it out of a box brand new. although i wish to make it like a set of adm rings, for a more "solid" mount but ill get to that, i still have a few things that i would like to sort out aka Rings ect ect.
I also want to get the weight as close to the mount head as possible, i use the extension bar on the EQ6, and although it works it tends to introduce more backlash. ill stick with the more weight senario close up to the top. I have already eyed off a 150mm solid steel bar sitting down in the prototype lab. so ill try and get a lump about 10kg. coupled with my remaining 2x 5.5 i should be able to balance the whole thing with a 10"+ED80+finderguider.
Good thread! new players take heed
