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To get mine the way I wanted I added a lazy susan bearing. That made it way too slick so I added some 3M stick-on felt pieces (the stuff you put under chair legs) to give it more friction. That cleared up my Az movement problems.
As for the Alt, I found that as long as I pulled the springs down onto the base (assuming yours has springs and not a tension knob??) that as long as the azimuth motion was smooth, I could put up with some minor jerkiness in the Alt. and just tried to compensate for any overshoot. I'd put the object to in the upper left and let it drift into the centre for example.
You'll never keep the object centred - without tracking, all you can do is put it in roughly in one corner or even slightly outside of the field of view, let it drift through, then repeat. Doing this also allows the scope to stop shaking by the time the object reaches the centre.
Good luck
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