Not to worry. The 1100 mount is being assembled in normal fashion by the 1100 crew. Rolando

To be clear, as the topic starter, I was very impressed by Roland's direct and detailed engagement in sorting this out. My only fear is that he spent so much time dealing with my emails that he fall

Taking ownership is a sign of your character and integrity. Thank you.

hello All, With the help of our mount owner we found the problem. He was able to locate the obstruction on the gear teeth by removing the grease cover on the side of the mount that exposes the worm

Keith and Andrew, Email me directly and I can attach instructions. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone: 815-282-1513

After more than a decade of use, not much grease left on the rotating bearings in both Dec and RA! Put on a thin film of AeroShell 33. Good to get that tended to. Now for the worm and wheel. Again,

Thanks. I’m going to try it tonight.

I have had excellent results with doing two and three line APPM map runs which bracket the declination of the target for the night. There was a discussion on this last summer -

Hi All. I received the Re-grease Kit for my GTO Mach1 today. I read through the instructions twice, but the steps are still not clear. The document jumps around quite a bit and covers so many

What I’m going to try tonight if I don’t hear anything is the following. My target’s declination is about +13 degrees. I plan to densely map points from +10 to +20 Dec all across the sky.

I'm in the same boat. I don't have a permanent setup so I haven't used APPM as I had hoped. But being able to build a model around a given object or point the in sky would be very useful to me if it

Yes, you can grease with Aeroshell 33, but make sure it does not contain sulfur. Sulfur corrodes bronze and brass gears. The top of the mount comes off and you can then grease all parts of the clutch

Thanks for the info. My concern is what would happen outside the modeled area. As someone who has done models myself in a different area, I just want to make sure there are not extrapolation errors

Yes, I've had it a while! Yes, original gear box with the two allen head screws for adjustment of the gear mesh. Still a great mount though - a workhorse. Do you have instructions for greasing the

David There have been posts in the post showing that building a model along the declinaton of the single object works well. See lengthy thread at https://ap-gto.groups.io/g/main/topic/77675005 In

There are no nylon clutch plugs in the Mach1. There is nothing to stick. However, the grease in the top rotating bearing may be drying out and could use some new grease. It sounds like your Mach1 is

I read about the grease kit, but couldn't find it on the website. So you have to phone to order then. Only issue is that I'm in Canada and, no offense Astro-Physics, but ordering from Canada is very

Just received my Mach2 and very happy with it. Until I get a permanent setup, I set up and break down my system just about every time I use it. I have APPM working, but I was thinking last night that

I got my mach1 about 8 weeks ago and the dec was sticking and sounded like metal rubbing against metal so I stripped it down and there wasnt any signs of grease left I have used lubriplate 105 on

Call Astro-Physics and ask for the grease kit. It comes with two types of grease. One for the gear box and one for the worm and worm wheel. It also comes with instructions. The grease is great,