[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks chaps for all your kindly helpful thoughts-Geoff Johnson has the sphinx too and has had those same issues,really this is unacceptable-and mathews' atlux-a very expensive mount have dec issues-Do not think I'll be buying Vixen again.

I'll give the retailer a ring this afternoon,but not expecting much feed back.But I think I have gone through many processes,and lots of help-even two ISS members who are very clever with high tec gear,are a bit stumped,after visiting to check it all out.Will keep trying,but it is appearing issues in DEC in vixen mounts is not at all uncommon.

Thanks 'Burandah1' for PM re sirus repairs,I'll follow that up.Apart from all that,I will just have to give astronomy a miss for a while.

cheers Chris