longnights

Pleased to see that you manage to sort it. Like you, (and many others over the years), I've fallen foul to the "failed to load driver EQMOD". In my case using Cartes du Ciel. Having recently moved to Windows 10 my laptop works fine but my mount-driving-PC is still a pain! Could you confirm please (for the easily confused), as well as deleting the .ini's in AppData\Roaming\EQMOD, do I need to do the same for EQMOD_SIM? And do I need to load the ASCOM Platform again before installing the EQMOD modules? Thanks, Dave

Many thanks. Ok bolt, bolt, washer, ball race, washer, plate. I'd appreciate any thoughts on why the pier bolt works loose after a number of polar aligns and adjustment of the RA bolts? Thanks

The "hand tight" bolt that goes through the top plate of the pier extension to secure the mount comes with 2 washers an a ball race. Very elementary question. Is it designed to fit bolt, washer, plate, ball race, washer or bolt, plate washer, ball race, washer? Thanks