Hy, yes I've started taking the mount apart and I'll go through the mechanical details to see that it's cleaned and lubricated as well as in general good condition. I'll make sure it's tightened correctly too.
The mount is quite an old NEQ-6 and I'm using a William Optics Z73 with a mono setup and a 50 mm guide scope. I'm really not very worried about too much weight as I haven't had to use more than one counterweight at just over halfway up the bar.

Alfred, I'm running a remote indi server which is running quite new software from just a month ago and I checked on the laptop it's running kstars 3.5.3 Stable and it says the build is from 2021-05-06 so it shouldn't be too old I think.

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