SW HEQ5 Pro Help

[hadyn42]

Hello Guys

Please could you help me regarding my HEQ5 Pro, I have noticed the the DEC on my trip has become loose at the clamp section. I noticed that the Allen Screws were really loose and have tightened then up to take out the movement. Have I done wrong by tightening them up please. I will try to attach a picture of my unit to try and show which screws that I have tightend up, I am afraid that I could be putting undure stress on my HEQ5 by my actions.

Thanking you in advance.

Best regards, Hadyn - Isle of Man

[Macavity]

No harm at all - They should be tight. They just go through the mount "tube" and engage with a v-cut slot in the clamp assembly "flange" to keep it firmly in place. My clamp had indentations, where the screws had originally been *tightly* done up, to fix the scope in a (arbitrary) forward direction - Or at least one corresponding to the 90 deg mark on the setting circle etc.

[hadyn42]

Hello Macavity

Thank you much for your reply.

Kind regards, Hadyn - Isle of Man

[Macavity]

Well, hope my randomly invented terminology was clear. You can slacken / extract the screws completely and thereby remove the clamp. But the grub screws are obviously non-captive and rather easily lost!

A fine visual ref. (from Astrobaby) better illustrating the above verbiage:

http://www.astro-bab...ild/heq5-d1.htm