Ryan,
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Thanks so much for your time looking at this and your observations, it definitely gives me a starting point of what to look at. My current plan is to adjust what I can with the mount as it is (steel worms, original worm blocks, existing grease etc) to see where I can get to. Hopefully this will then give me a good (and improved) baseline before I dismantle, re-grease, install new worms and one piece worm blocks with Belleville washers. I’ll also look into whether replacing the oldham couplers is feasible too as getting them in the UK might be tricky? Hopefully after all that, and correctly adjusting everything, there will be an improvement?
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Then it’s similar again with my ageing G11 with an Ovision RA worm. The difference this time being that I don’t currently have any upgrade parts, so it would be adjustment and re-grease only.
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I forgot to mention that I polar aligned with a polemaster (first ever time doing it), so will look at that again and also confirm alignment with NINA 3 star PA. (Also never done before). I might also try another first of drift alignment just to get the best baseline I can! At some point, I might actually get some imaging done!
Thanks again and any more advice welcome.
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Bryn
