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One trick that has always served me well is, after the entire setup is assembled, i.e. all the weight is there, I pick up each leg individually, and retighten everything.. Specifically, I use a Meade

I have never seen the worm jump over the ring gear teeth while the spring force on my system is not very high.? Both GuitsBoy and I use OnStep, which has a very gradual acceleration from tracking to

Was on gravel, I try to smooth it out, so I think maybe a leg shifted a tad while slewing to DEC 0. When I redid it, I didn't change a thing and it stayed.

You don't mention how much?? That's a pretty impressive mount to my untrained eye.. And I bought mine second hand and in person and all I did was make sure it moved in all four directions and sounded

Herman, I'm interested in updating my G11G to G11T because of the weight of the instruments. As I'm not knowledgeable enough to perform all these modifications, what is the improvement of the G11T

David, Some "gotchas" to watch for: 1. After you polar align, retighten the AZ thumbscrews. If you find this affects your PA, I suggest you add some Belleville vsoring washers to your AZ bolts to keep

I have a couple of questions, not sure if they are related, but I thought I should post them together. All of this basically concerns improving my guiding, particularly in RA. Right now I get decent

Well I found some time to work on this,? I wake up for work at 3:30AM.? 2 hours of sleep sucks. I'm going to try again this week for better logs,? I will post this with info.

Keith, et al, Good question about the net effect of CRC lube. I felt it as smooth, and better than with Super lube. I bought a cartridge of Shell 33 grease that the AP group apparently recommended,

A picture of M106 taken that very night with C9 + 80ED as guide scope with PHD2 FWHM 1,8"

Hello everyone, I'm new to this group and to astrophotography as well. I'm considering bying a 10 year old second hand G11 GLT equipped with Ovision worms, spacer and Gemini 2 for my observatory. It

Thanks Michael. It may be worth testing by simply adding a tiny bit of gap with the "back off" screw, and tightening down the blocks, that should effectively get be back to where I was before the

Michael, have you measured if reduced 'chatter' = better tracking? Keith

Does anyone in UK or Europe have an HGM200 or Titan for sale? Thinking of an OTA upgrade and my G11 is not up for it ... David

Thanks Michael - I know what you mean about the chatter, when the worm is "letting down" weight, and as you said, makes a good argument for the weighted string trick or east heavy bias.?? I'm glad

Tony, One more set of ideas for you to consider and try. The Losmandy spring loaded worm uses a very heavy spring. If that spring is pushing the worm in to the ring gear, it will cause high friction

Hi Tony, When I started the improvements to the G11T Titan RA, the ring gear was almost dry, and there was some slight lube balled up on the ring gear edge where the worm had pushed it away. Here is

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Hi Michael - I just purchased and applied some CRC brake and caliper lube, and applied it a few days ago.? I was hoping that the moly might help with the increased friction from my DIY spring loaded

Jeez Damn excellent work there MIchael..... well done -- Brendan