[Tiotion (Jack)]

Hi all,
Ive got a problem mounting an encoder to the Az axis of my 12" GSO dob. Basically, the bracket holds the encoder a few mills above the pivot bolt, so that the shaft of the encoder does not fit into the pivot bold all the way in. So when i tilt the tube, the edge just nips the encoder and pushes it about 2mm deeper into the pivot bolt. Once it passes, the bracket springs back up. Not a major issue i guess, but over the years this is just going to cause unnessesary wear on the encoder.

The bracket is one supplied by Wild Card Innovations, but this isnt their fault at all. I bought the scope used, and the previous owner had US digital s2 encoders, which are a few mm thinner. In my defence though, the s2 description does say that the s6 superceeds the s2 and to use it rather than s2. When i realised it was a little thicker than the s2 the encoders were already en route to Syd. Whoops!

So basically does anyone know how i can mount the bracket a bit better? Any easily obtainable hardware that could do the job? Or self made brackets?

A cheap and nasty fix is to file down the edge of the tube but yeh...cheap and nasty indeed.