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Whine, the sticktion is bad...whine, whine. It makes it very difficult to aim or track at higher powers, whine. Slo-mo would help with the sticktion. When I get some time I'll take it apart and see if I can do anything to reduce the schticktion. Other than that, I agree it's very stable with a 15 lb load and I'm going to try it with 15 lb on each side. I expect it will do well with that too.

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Hello Luigi

I bought the Skywatcher "SkyTee" mount which I suspect is the same as the one sold by Orion. Excellent and very stable mount for the money. Here in Sydney it costs one half of the WO equivalent. I have mounted a 6"-F5 Newtonian and/or a WO ZS105 refractor on it, several times and the mount performed very well especially in terms of vibration both when moving the tubes or when focusing at any magnification. However, I would have liked that the "stiction" to be less. I have another small problem with it and I am in the process of trying to resolve it with the retailer. I noticed that the left handside dovertail housing slips a bit in relation to the right handside one. The slip is similsr to that I experienced with a Vixen Portamount.
Have you or anyone else noticed a similar slip? If so how was it fixed?

Thanks and regards

George (astrolabe)
Sydney Australia

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