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Originally Posted by MrB
Cheers Dave.
There are a couple of things about the AT that are really just poor design, the Dec. adjust screw on the wedge for one. It fell apart on the second night while I was trying to polar align, I thought the weekend was over but I thought about it and came up with a work-around and got back to imaging just in time for the clouds to roll in 
But overall I am very very happy with the AT. Tho I will be making some improvements to it. |
I agree! I think the core AT tracker is superbly designed, but many of the accessories (including wedge) were later additions that aren't quite as good.
I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but the altitude fine adjustment screw on the wedge can be detached from the bolt if you have a huge weight on the AT, or if the coarse altitude alignment allen bolt is too tight.
I never got around to it, but with a few adjustments it'd be a killer portable set up. I particularly like Roger's laser-based polar alignment mod
