My reason for asking Tom was more for one of the other posts that had asked about weight capacity of the EZTouch... since the DS1 is similar in design the key question one will want to ask is what is going to be mounted on these new style Alt/az mounts... again, I feel fairly confident that my two small scopes that I am mounting on this style mount will work fine. And as you stated, Raul has been great to work with as has the folks at WO.