Can I have overtightened the 8x bearing bolts?

You problem appears to have been loose clutches.

Overtightening the 8 screws is not an issue unless you used an 8ft cheater wrench with a Moose pushing on the end.

Rolando

-----Original Message-----
From: Rouz <rbidshahri@...>
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Sent: Thu, Apr 21, 2022 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] AP1100 Play in Dec Axis #Guiding

I tightened the 8 Dec and Ra bolts. they were pretty tight to begin with.

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• I then tightened the clutch knobs all the way down with an Allen key.
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• The gap on the dec axis no longer opened up and the Dec' plate was parallel  to the axis which is good news.
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• However, making a model (same points as before) showed the error to much worse.

I did change the camera configuration so the balance was off:

1. I'm not sure if the balance being off caused such a larger error? (will rebalance and try again)
2. Can I have overtightened the 8x bearing bolts?

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Roland Christen
Astro-Physics