Looking for advice on my EQ6 altitude mount bolts.

[Taff]

Hi' I'm looking for some advice please.Over the night time over the weekend i was screwing in two new bolts for the altitude.The front bolt screwed in fine but with the back one with a handle on it won't go any higher than 50' degree.I need the mount to go to 51'degree but looking through the polar scope the altitude mount will not go any higher.Can any one help me out Thanks for reading.Mark

[MBJ]

Have you got them the right way round as one is longer than the other.

[Taff]

Hi MBJ' Yes' the one with the handle and a red button which is the longest goes in the back of the mount and the shortest one goes into the front.When i took the old ones' out because the back bolt was bent.Mark.

 

[kirkster501]

Can you remove the bolts completely ( or loosen them significantly) and then adjust the altitude without the bolts?

[ollypenrice]

Just put a tilt of a couple of degrees into the tripod by lengthening the north leg. It has no effect on PA and no effect on your polarscope for alignment. The reticle on the polarscope is only affected by E-W leveling and then by only a tiny amount. I can't see a small tilt like that affecting stability. It's something Tak mount owners have to do in even moderately northern latitudes and is perfectly satisfactory.

Olly

[Taff]

I'm trying to get close to my altitude so i can take images of the night sky with out having any star trails.A new problem have developed with the mount going to open a new page.Mark

[bottletopburly]

I modded my Eq6 with a aluminium stop found the drawing on a french Astro site if memory serves me well .