How to Super tune the Skywatcher NEQ-6 Mount Part 6

Are you having tracking errors with your Skywatcher NEQ-6/ EQ-6 in result of your Astro images ruined in the process!!!
Then there is new hope, please watch this D.I.Y. project video and please subscribe and activate your notifications tab, considering that this is a huge project and there will be many parts coming soon!! So please watch and SUPER TUNE your NEQ-6/ EQ-6 mount Part 5 and bring new life and performance to it and save money in the process.

In this part we are looking at the most important part which is often overlooked and people miss this crucial part, so please watch!!!

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Big shout out to these guys for the help and please check out their web sites:

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Star Tools for Beginners and Users Group:

links to other Astro Retailers who can carry out tuning and repairs on EQ mounts (if you have limited tools or mechanical experience) for you!!

Rother Valley Optics:

Dark Frame EQ Tuning Specialist:

NEW LINKS for the M3 THUMBSCREWS:

NEW LINKS for RA/Dec Gear Ring and Worm drive replacements:

TO ORDER THE PARTS featured in the video:

Rowan Belt Modification

Rowan NEQ-6 Pro Bearing ring removal tool:

Geoptik Equatorial Mount Grease Kit:

Skywatcher HM5 uprated Polar scope:

Skywatcher Dual Saddle Plate For EQ6 Mounts:

To order the high grade bearings:

The HIGH Performance Bearing Parts:

SKF 6082RSH Rubber Sealed Deep Groove Ball Bearing 8x22x7mm 4x required

SKF 60082RS1 Rubber Sealed Deep Groove Ball Bearing 40x68x15mm 6x required

SKF 30206J2Q Metric Single Row Taper Roller Bearing 30x62x17.25mm 1x required

SKF 32208J2Q Metric Single Row Taper Roller Bearing 40x80x24.75mm 1x required

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[gollondblack]

Great series so far Martin, I really think your audio and video production has gone to the next level, can't wait for the next one cheers.

[kajouman]

good one..this is one of the most important things. after adjusting the polar scope, polaralignment is so much easyer

[paultyson]

Brilliant Martin. I wish I had seen this 3 days ago!! I ended up with the tiny hex screws falling out and it took me all day to put it all back and even now it's not as accurate as yours. I had heard about this mod but didn't know what thread the hex screws were. Can't thank you enough for the link. Hopefully the thumbscrews will be here tomorrow.👍👍 Also very interested how you filmed the sight glass!! Cheers

[bramisheu]

Awesome as always, very detailed as usual

[kaliska]

Great video Martin, that will help a lot of poeple

[dankahraman]

A lot of information! About to watch it. I am having a separate concrete pad being built in addition to the new building in September. It will be outside. I can have spots made on the concrete for the various scopes so that set-up is minimized.

[dankahraman]

The replacement of the 1.5 mm set screws with metric thumbscrews is an excellent idea. Accessing one of the three set screws was always very difficult for me in adjusting the polar reticle finderscope.

[tonyroba]

is the guiding mutch better after your super tuning ? Can you show a graph so we can notice thee difference ?

[rapcagornja]

Dimensions for those grab replacement set screws please, I have EQ6 also, bought Rowan and bearings, also oem Onstep board for it, waiting just for the worm grease...

[mikeg]

Just about to buy all the stuff to supertune my neq6 pro, what sort of rms error are you getting when guiding? Great vids just watched 1 to 6, very informative thanks

[tonyroba]

how about the guiding stats after your tune-up?

[carlmonfils]

I looked and i cannot find a video or a comment about the improved guiding after the hypertune. Can you tell us what kind of results you got after the tune?

[boaty]

Always worth having a synced polariscope, but once you start using Eqmod take it to the next level, polemaster or PolarAlign in sharpcap better guiding, then platesolve make finding targets so much easier first time every time

[dankahraman]

What are the sizes of the grub screws on the Meade LXD55 mount polar reticle scope? I would like to replace these with thumbscrews as per your suggestions here for the Skywatcher EQ-6 mount.

[dankahraman]

Polar reticle adjustments are a pain in the *** but very important if you don't have a Polemaster. Yes very difficult!

[dankahraman]

Martin, you are not clear about moving the object half way between the initial position and its position at 180 degree rotation using the set screw adjustments before centering it with adjustments to the azimuth and altitude bolts.

[dankahraman]

Questions: 1) How much are you moving the object with the set screw adjustments before you centre it by moving the altitude and azimuth bolts? Half way between initial centred position and the position at 180 degree R.A. rotation? 2) Why are you moving the R.A. axis only 90 degrees after making your altitude and azimuth bolt adjustments?

[GrimstodDesh]

This is certainly good info and no one else is putting anything like this together. But could you just say things once? You repeat yourself a LOT. This drags out the videos and makes them much longer then necessary. For example when you were talking about the replacement set screws you named them three times. Just once is fine.