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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1006530" data-attributes="member: 325666">I could accept that maybe I have a lemon ...but in light of the failure of so many ..approx 1 per year ...that's a whole crate of lemons ..Yes the Qarl failed ..but so has the more recent Venture ...and the list is a long one going backwards ..Now I know that Christina is a heavy weight but nothing I cannot swing accross the arc by hand with gravity assist ..So not a bearing stiffness or mount issue ...the actuators simply aren't up to the job imo&nbsp; ..unlike the Jaeger that on the same dish lasted about 10 years ..cest la vie..On my mount I have to push the dish to 1W - ish under compression...and lower past 1W to East under tension ..I guess this is the reason I get so much play introduced over a period of time ..Constant changes from compression to tension and back again ..Plastic nuts simply aren't up to this..and play creeps in..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1006530, member: 325666"] I could accept that maybe I have a lemon ... but in light of the failure of so many ..approx 1 per year ... that's a whole crate of lemons .. Yes the Qarl failed ..but so has the more recent Venture ...and the list is a long one going backwards .. Now I know that Christina is a heavy weight but nothing I cannot swing accross the arc by hand with gravity assist .. So not a bearing stiffness or mount issue ... the actuators simply aren't up to the job imo ..unlike the Jaeger that on the same dish lasted about 10 years .. cest la vie.. On my mount I have to push the dish to 1W - ish under compression...and lower past 1W to East under tension .. I guess this is the reason I get so much play introduced over a period of time ..Constant changes from compression to tension and back again .. Plastic nuts simply aren't up to this..and play creeps in.. [/QUOTE]

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