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Chip the comment referred to the earlier comment on this thread.? Where Paul mentioned using a washer as a clip hold the motor flange against the housing.? Preventing stress on the mounting bolts

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What are "Paul's Safety Clips" what do they do? -- Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware Astrospheric Forecast - South Pasadena, CA (

I'm not sure of any material advantage exists for not just replacing the part, given this new part exists and installed with fewer unknowns.? But that reference link for repair of plastic coverings

Yes, but in this design there's really no material to take advantage of the helicoils strengths. It can only thread into the same plastic. A good quality stainless 4-40 has a yield strength of 120

For what it’s worth… I’ve had my G11 for slightly less than a year now, after years of having Celestron GEMs. The G11 on a permanent pier. Like with your situation, my sky is limited by my

Mike, Where applicable Helicoil threaded? inserts are an excellent solution for many metal thread repairs.? I have used them for decades in street and tr

I disagree with the idea that a thread repair solution like a Helicoil is not effective. The approximately doubling of the screw to female thread engagement area makes for a very much stronger

With the HC (L6/1.6) you can use the mount to select your stars.? Say I set the mount to CWD and Cold Start, then I want to use a visible bright star.? ?Slew the mount manually to point the OTA at

Lots of videos on FB/You Tube? on repairing plastic. I generally heat weld plastic to fill the stripped hole and reinforce with fine metal screening that either epoxied or melted in to the plastic.

Thanks for that, Chip, but we can't connect to the mount.? In plugging into the Ethernet Port onto the ASI Air unit, green light comes on, with other end of the cable plugged into the Gemini circuit

Hi Dan, Sorry for the off putting PM, I took your post as a demand for an answer, my mistake. Here is what I think is going on.? The reason you cannot put anything into the Default Gateway IP

The gearboxes are a slightly soft plastic so regular plastic glue that melts the plastic to form a bond probably won't work.? The heavy dental floss does work and you can adjust how much you use to

Not very effective in most plastics especially a thin plastic part like this.? The best route I have found is to replace the gearboxes with a new one.? Or alternatively use common thread adhesive or

Could you repair plastic threads by putting a bit of plastic cement (glue) into the threads, letting it harden, and then letting the screw cut new threads into it?

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David. The motors are held against the Plastic gearbox by UNC 4-40 screws. ?Constant removing, reinstalling or over tightening of these screws damage the plastic threads. ?Easiest fix is to replace

Hi David, you probably stripped the thread that the motors screws screw into. That's not hard to do, these threads are plastic. You can try to repair the threads with some adhesive (something that's

The RA Motor on my G-11 is so loose that I have to slap it back into position in order for it to engage the gears.? I don't see any way to "tighten" it so it doesn't wobble in and out of the

The HC is temperature sensitive for sure. Have you tried to use an app on your phone like Sky Safari to control the GOTO of the mount?? ?Works great for this. -- Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer