Building a mount - Engineering Questions?

I am going to embark on building a german equatorial mount. Does any one have a good source for practical engineering questions associated with building a telescope mount? a good book or someone willing to look at drawings and give suggestions? Maybe comments from some others who have built a mount and lessons learned?
Thanks
Anthony
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Anthony,

John Davis makes custom GEM's. He has a Yahoo group that he uses for most communication:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gemini-Instruments/

He is a right friendly fellow and may be able to help you out. Here's a picture of his 125 lbs capacity mount on a portable pier he made.

Tom

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The article by Russell W. Porter of long ago in Amateur Telescope Making (Book I) is well worth digging up. Don't, however, pay attention to the idea that a solid mount has to be massive.