Is there an Atlas user's group website, David? Someplace that itemizes the fixes and upgrades that you could post to save me the searches? I'm not against a few tweaks, but for fourteen hundred bucks, it would be nice to have something that works as advertised right out of the box. I wouldn't be surprised if the Celestron and Atlas mounts both came out of the same Chinese factory. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:16 PM, David Rankin <David@rankinstudio.com>wrote:
I actually have the newer model, and everything I listed was still an issue. They are affordable though, and with very little effort you can hyper-tune them into nice mounts.
There are quite a few online guides for hyper-tuning and adjusting the atlas. I think I've totally disassembled mine about 5 times now. I could do it blind folded lol.