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So far I’ve had no vibration issues and everything has been very smooth at every different elevation while tracking.

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I also read posts talking about how hard the bigger scopes were to get centered. I’m not sure when but the new tripod has a spring that keeps the mounting bolt elevated making mounting / centering the scope a breeze. It springs into place if you don’t quite have it centered but at least you hear it going up into the bottom of the mount.

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Yeah, that's my experience too. The only "wriggle" I've had is on a couple of occasions when unmounting the scope I've been sure I've undone the bolt, yet the tripod has come too when I've tried to lift the mount off. I think you have to lift straight, if you pull at an angle the tripod seems to "grab".

Incidentally lifting the mounting onto the tripod is a lot more positive with my LX90 than it is with the CPC1100 I've got in the last month (aperture fever ) Not only is the location more positive with the LX, on the CPC you have to rotate the mount until it clicks into place then do up three bolts which are a lot more fiddly than the single, very positive, bolt on the LX90 tripod. The CPC makes me considerably more nervous as the spring loaded pin which you depend on for location isn't anything like as positive as the Meade's spring loaded blot. Not dropped it yet, though - I suppose there may be a first (and last) time!

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