Very nice, Jay!

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Vince, A 1200 second exposure. TWENTY MINUTES. Two periods. Swinging an 8" newt, for goodness sake! I think you now hold the record for exposure length. Congratulations! :-) - Bob

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Well, the reviews are piling up on the BBB site. Much better :-)

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Excellent news :-)

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Burks21, As Dan said, this is a brutal hobby. A whole lot of things have to go right, in order for those pictures to turn out. In order for those things to go right, a bunch of T's have to be crossed,

Buddy, Yup - light bar / bull bar / etc. clamps rock. Mine were off ebay, in a somewhat different style, but same function. They are ideal for securely clamping whatever you like on those 2" legs, and

Trevor, I'm really surprised that you ended up with a loose adjustment - it sounded before like you had things sorted out. If it's now as loose as you describe, then all I can think of is either shims

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I ended up with a Power Tank Pro - a LiFePo4. It was expensive, but the discharge voltage is much flatter over time than Li-ion, and for my setup I haven't found the endurance limit yet. All I know is

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Scott, It really depends on how much power you plan on drawing, and for how long, and at what voltage, and at what temperatures. My setup (AP-only, PMC8, DewNot dew heaters, usb hub, DSLR, Guide camer

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Jerry, Thanks! That was an interesting read. The author was happy that he could guide out his periodic error. We can do that without replacing factory bearings and gears. Just keep the power train adj

Jennifer, Yes, "First, do no harm". :-) Burr inspection, yes, ditto. Mine were fine that way. You see many stories about folks lapping, polishing, etc., but while I do think that it may be possible to

Vince, You asked about grease... Not sure what Jennifer did for hers, but my mount had the famous 'sticky Chinese grease' that you read about, on its internals. The worm and ring teeth were greased wi

Jennifer, Not the teeth? I would have thought that they would have been your target! :-) I had mine apart about a year ago, due to a ring gear that was so tight that I was unable to balance the mount

Trevor, I got #41160. Amazon says it's "clear", but translucent would be a better description. Clear enough in a film, but as a 400g glob in a can, it does look white. :-)) As far as I can tell from t

Interesting! Did you polish the ring, the worm, or both? Lapping, or just hand-polished individually? From the product description and applications described, it almost looks like it must be using som

That's it - Thank you both!

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My tracking was getting a bit off, wasn't sure why, and I was wondering about how the Liqui Moly + MoS2 was holding up on the gears. So, time to break out the hex wrenches and take a look. The Liqui M

Kent/Alex, While I was adjusting my mount, one of the little Phillips-head motor housing screws flew away and escaped to the land of unmatched socks. No idea where the darn thing went. :-( Could you p

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Gorgeous work, Ettore!

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asanmax, Very nice! Are you using that C5 with a reducer, or at full FL?

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