At 2:43 PM -0800 1/4/98, ragreiner wrote:
>...Michael Hart's excellent work on rebuilding the Dec drive and bearings...

It seems from reading this
(<http://www.mailbag.com/users/ragreiner/decfixmajor.html >) that LX200
owners would have been saved a lot of grief had Meade used a pair of $5
bearings instead of the (presumably cheaper) nylon ones. This kind of cost
cutting is what drives me nuts about the LX200. Don't get me wrong, I love
my LX200 and I still think its a great product. But think how much better
it would have been if not for all these silly little cut corners!

And don't start about how a $10 increase in manufacturing cost translates
to a $50 increase final sales price. First of all, it is really not that
simple. And even if it were, I (and I suspect most of you) would be happy
to pay a few hundred bucks more for a more robust and trouble-free product.

---
Bill Arnett "Science is a way of trying
San Jose, CA USA not to fool yourself." -- Feynman

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