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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

I'm fairly certain this is true if you live in the right place.? ?Not sure where the OP is located but in Saginaw by the time it gets to be almost dark Jupiter is an hour away from being out of

Hi dkfcpalfd@... - whoever that is, ( dkfcpalfd@... ) Please sign you posts with your name or at least a handle. Unlike most folks here replying I am an ASIAIR user and Losmandy Gemini user

I'm fairly certain Jupiter is in the night sky currently, at least early, mid evening :-)

Brendan... please read the post I gave above.? ASI Air would not allow any input into the Default Gateway data field. Look... I have a Losmandy mount.? This is a Losmandy forum.? But someone with

Default gateway is usually same as primary DNS ….which is your router IP address https://gemini-2.com/web/web-network.html -- Brendan

Thanks for that.? We did try USB, and I think we're close on Ethernet connection if we just get by on the Default Gateway input.

You may wish to try USB first just to make sure everything works. Later on you can try ethernet. USB is almost plug and play ;). I have no clue, like, at all, how to help with ethernet and the

The goto feature works even without building a model, it will just not be very accurate but will slew the mount to the general vicinity of your intended target. After that initial slew you simply

Touch screens are not very fond of cold climates :). Using your finger nails instead of fingertips is a good option. Also a pen or an old style stylus (the plastic, pointy tipped ones) work in a