AdamSutton

I was tempted, but when looking into it the older HEQ5 like mine also require drilling to get the new pinion shafts to fit. I may come back to that later.

Thanks Louise, I wouldn't be attempting this without that great guide

I hear you, but I am just not convinced with what has been done to this mount in the past and it is at least 10 years old. One of the odd things I have found is that one of the worms has 2 bearings on one end of the shaft! so there are five in total. My thinking is that if I have everything apart I may as well replace them all with higher quality ones.

Update: I feel a bit of a fool. As the weather is rubbish this bank holiday, I just spent a couple of hours fully dismantling the mount and the washers were there. Doh! Seems to be a lot of play in the tapered bearings, so this is going to be interesting to see how things work out. Going to order the bearings this week and hopefully get things back together next weekend. Thanks again for the replies all.

Thanks spillage. I will check out the neq6 guide, not sure of the size of the washers as they are missing but I will see what I can find and may be in touch. Really appreciate the offer.

Thanks drjolo, that is a massive help!

Hi all, I have a secondhand HEQ5 pro, that I bought without knowing much! I have since learned it needed a fair bit of TLC and over two years of ownership have stripped it down twice, the first time got things moving properly as it was stalling a lot, the second time after more reading I got things much improved and I used better grease. It still isn't great though and I think the bearings could do with being changed, everything just feels too tight though I know I haven't over tightened anything. I had contacted darkframe last week but not heard anything back, and am also thinking with the age of the mount rather than spend out money to that degree to just have a go at changing the bearings myself. I have found various posts on the bearings, but does anyone have a definitive shopping list of what is required to replace all HEQ5 Pro bearings? The other thing I have noticed is that from astro-baby's guide it mentions plastic washers on the RA and DEC axis, and I know for a fact that these are missing on my mount, were they always provided and present? If so does anyone know if replacements are available anywhere? Thanks!