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LX90 - mine works passably well in Wedge - the guiding is not amazing - it is just possible to get about 3 or 4 minutes clean - I shall mount it on a NEQ6 or similar as soon as I can afford the mount.
With all the gubbins on it, I can't get close to polar for photography - I'm not even sure I can get Eta Carina - we'll see.
I spent a lot of time balancing it and stripping it down and refitting a lot of the parts so they worked smoothly - there was all sorts of loctite and goo on the Dec motor pivots - the whole fork scraped on the base of the mount when in wedge - until I shaved off some metal - which I shouldn't have to do. The RA clutch was awful because there was a washer on the top of the shaft which shouldn't be there - well it worked worse with it there anyway.
Nothing though has broken - but the first thing I did was lose the battery holders - they scraped about inside when in wedge mode.
The tiny little diagonal is crap - and I got rid of that in a hurry too.
Not impressed with the mount. The OTA is quite excellent
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