
Re: Maxwell MP-101 Pan/Tilt Remote Camera Tripod Heads
Is it the same thing that Don French uses in his Automate?
http://www.thegadgetworks.com/He seems to be a big, bearded, smiling fellow, so perhaps you could ask him directly for some advice.
To be a really good pointing device for timelapses it really needs to be designed for the task, or have some feedback (i.e. shaft encoder) and (microcontroller) brains added. Presumably that's what Mr French did.
Short of that perhaps you could replace the motors with suitable gearhead motors (they have built-in speed reduction.)
Surplus places like
http://www.allelectronics.com and
http://www.goldmine-elec.com may have something that would work. I'd do some calculations first, otherwise it might end up being too slow...