Link:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/731720-heq5-belt-mod-in-us/?p=10569035
It's a question I'm pondering. My heq5pro mount guides around .8" to 1.5" after careful polar alignment. Supposedly, I can get that mostly closer to .5" to 1" with the mod.
I want to do it to prove dummy Rod Molise (the SCT police) and that EFT grump wrong. But maybe they're right.