C8 + CGE Package

We just recieved a new 8" Carbon Fiber Celestron with the CGE mount and the dovetail doesn't clamp down on the dovetail tight enough to hold the scope. Celestron sent another orange dovetail for the OTA and the same problem exists. Has this happened to anyone else and what was the final fix other than a shim.

Thanks,
Brian

There are two seperate dovetail plates - a narrow 1' wide type that fits the CG-5/4 (Great Polaris clone) mounts and the wider 3" type that fits the CGE/Losmandy G-11 mounts. Sounds like you got the CG-5 one.... Did you buy this as a unit (IE - the CGE-8) or did you buy as two seperate items - the cge mount and the c-8 OTA??? When you buy the ota seperately it only comes with the cg-5 mount plate. You either need to but the celestron plate - or even better buy the losmandy DC-8 plate - which is a better unit.