MTS-SN6 Questions

[MtnGoat]

Greetings folks,
I picked up an old SN6 a few years back at a garage sale for a hundred bucks. I've been using it on and off and love the flat field it has and it's fairly compact and the fork mount is pretty solid.

A couple questions:

First off, the secondary holder isn't tight and keeps rotating relative to the corrector plate. Every couple times I use it the mere action of carrying it out to the yard is enough to skew the danged thing and then I have to teak it back into place. What is the correct method of tightening it a smidgen?

The fork mount RA drive tracks OK but I have no declination slow motion or any control other than the tightening knob. I was wondering what the lineage of this mount is and if there are parts available from some other related mount that shares a common design in the declination parts with it. It would be nice to install a slow motion system, or even a motor driven declination, heck, even an encoder and drive if such a thing is possible. (Heck, if there's a goto hack for this thing that would be the bee's knees)

I'm not crazy about the helical focusser, but it works OK I guess. One of these days I'll get around to picking up one of the nice low cost GSO dual speed units that are around now.

Anyhow, thanks for any Tips!

[MtnGoat]

Jeez, are the old SN's the red headed stepchild of the Meade lineup, or what? nearly 60 views and no tips or suggestions at all, on Meade's own forum? Criminy!

[katodog]

Why not go over to the Cloudy Nights forums and ask in the "Classics" forum, and in the "Meade" forum. Certainly there's someone somewhere that can help you out.



http://www.cloudynights.com/

[MtnGoat]

Heck, that's where I started. Got a couple bites but nobody knowledgeable. I figured that at the factory sponsored site I'd get a bit more info.