Posts Made By: Frederick Taylor

Finished refurbishing my restored Brat for the second time. Had it for 12 years and is my daily driver if I am not on the bike.

Troy I am no expert but sounds like the mount is already working for you. Celestron sends it out w/ a C11 which I do believe is a little much. You are around 10 lbs. under that. You could try doing a degrease and polish if you feel capable. I know on the Meade mounts it makes a tremendous difference having owned a LXD55 that I hypertuned and currently a LXD75 that I had Dr. Clay do. I have never done AP so maybe not qualified to answer but sounds easily doable. I did run my C11 on the LXD55 which was 31.5 lbs dressed for viewing, I had added Walnut legs. I have also mounted a 6" ED/APO Meade (trimmed to 26.5lbs) on the 75 model and was suprised by how stable it was. Probably won't do it anymore though as it looked huge on the LXD75. I have heard that William Optics 132 is nice, hope you enjoy it!

James when you back off the center bolt a 1/8 of a turn and run the two outside adjsuting bolts in you may have gotten it out of line with the RA gear. Kinda of like maybe the left adjusting bolt is a 1/8 turn difference to the right one. Could have come from the factory that way and your adjusting keeps it out of line. I am just guessing on that but besides someting as you have mentioned that is all I came come up with. My orginal LXD55 I spent 20 some hours hypertuning it, half was trying to get the mesh right for zero play without binding. For some reason my LXD75 took a total of 20 minutes to accomplish the same feat. Maybe my LXD55 ws suffering the same problem as yours and I just finally got lucky and hit the sweet spot. I would try backing out everything but the two outside mounting bolts and start over, think I did that a dozen times with the LXD55. If that doesn't work I would dissassemble it and check the RA aluminum gear for out of round are bad cut grooves.

It has been years but I had a MK11 Ruger with a 4 power Burris pistol scope. Extremely narrow field of view but very accurate at 25 yards, a little to much mag in my opinion. Best friend has a 44 mag. Ruger with a 2x Leopold which has a better field of view. Burris did make a 1X pistol scope years ago, don't know if they still do but that would be my pistol scope choice if I was to every go that route again. I have shoot a 22 rifle with the red dot and that was an interesting alternative, think I personally prefer a cross hair. I think the red dot would allow quicker shopts and the scope would be more precise. What do you intend to mount it on and do with it?

Reagan both times!