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The stock mount has so much slop, it's almost useless.

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Did you do the drive training procedure? It's supposed to remove any slop. Also make sure both clutch nobs are tight (but not so tight you break them)

I would guess the cube would handle the weight of your scope fine (7.8lbs, 3.5kg) but I'm not sure how much better it would be over the meade fork as they both have plastic gears I'd expect them to be very similar. You also have the issue of removing it from the fork and mounting a dovetail. An ETX90 spotting scope would be easier

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Hioptic 152mm f12.5 Maksutov
Celestron Advanced CG5-GT Mount (Mr Noisy!)
Meade 4000 Super Plossl Set
Casio QV-2900UX
Got fed up of waiting for Meade ETX-150 so put this together for £500/$1000

Edited by sang33ta (07/14/08 12:33 PM)

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