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It seems to me a fork mount ought to be fairly simple to make very solid. And yet everyone here seems to agree that their factory forks for the various scopes are less than optimal. I don't get it, the forks on the LX's look pretty danged beefy for example.

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The problem is the RA bearings. The design is bad. Look at the Mathis mounts - see the big honking cone at the base of the RA axis? That's what allows them to have the big, properly spaced bearings. There's not enough room in the base of M or C forks to give them the stability they need when mounted equatorially, especially the big ones. The 14" LX200 mount is beefy, all right, but it's that darned base that makes it wiggle!

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- Rick
14" LX200GPS
8" Meade 826C

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