It's OK, Kevin.
I leave my tripod out and covered. But everything else comes in out of the heat of summer.
So nothing electrical is outside in the heat. Beyond the heat stressing the lubricants, people don't realize excessive heat also stresses the capacitors in the electronics.
I do a new Model every night anyway, and I have my mount "modularized" into "chunks" for moving back and forth.
1. 12" EX12 has the Gemini and wiring harness, and the RA on it; 2. The RAEXT carries the DEC and the bar/weight as a chunk; 3. And lastly is the telescope assembly. (Mine is everything from a D Bar up.)
I cover my tripod with a heavy canvas painters tarp and my 32 gallon plastic dome.
But the tripod remains polar oriented, so when I set up the pieces, the bayonet indexes bring the RA into near Polar Alignment.
The mount is as near a perfect mount as any ever made.
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SonnyE
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