Meade ETX Premier Edition: ETX105 PE Telescope "auto az" Questions

...auto align, the Elevation drive stopped functioning after a few tries. I have Googled all the solutions and checked motor, gears, worm drive, wiring, all appear OK. Azimuth works fine. No fault shown ...

Az position and have had many pleasurable viewing secessions and mediocre imaging secessions. I decided to build a concrete pier mount and Milburn wedge setup to advance my photo experience. I mounted

...auto alignment, it never slews close enough to a target to find non-naked eye objects without lengthy spiral searching (the target is sometimes even outside the range of the 8x50 finder scope). It is ...