Mike
Specifics were that mud daubers had built condos inside the OTA on both
sides of several of the baffles, and in the LXD750 housing, one directly on
the board and main shaft bearing. I found these upon searching for an image
shift problem which turned out to be the shredded teflon strips on the
focuser drawtube. The 152ED had been left stored in his observatory with
the diagonal off and no cover on the focuser end apparently. A missing
inspection plate was the inlet to the LXD750 housing. The above combination
of problems caused me to not take up the owner on the offer of repair. His
age played a part in the decision also, he won't be around in 2084 to assist
the group with the Y2K mystery. We've stayed in touch, he returned the
152ED to Meade in April and has not received it back to this date.

BTW, I've owned two Corvettes also. Had I still owned the '66 427 I could
have used it to drag the 152ED from the garage on a set of JMI Wheely Bars.

Best Regards,
Don Holcombe
Katy, TX
http://www.flash.net/~donholco/index.html
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: Re: Used Scope Checklist???


>You didn't pass on the specifics of your problem, but if I was you, and I
had
>gotten a pretty good deal on the 152ED (By the way....it should have been
on a
>LXD750 not a 650, 650 can't handle the weight, maybe you made a typo), and
it
>was nice optically, I would definitly think about getting any problems with
the
>mount fixed, especially if the guy was going to pay for it or at least
maybe
>give you some of your money back. There is no magic with this mount and
nothing
>on it that can't be fixed assuming that the housing hadn't been smashed. I
have
>had my Dec. shaft and gear, RA shaft and Gear and both motors replaced on
mine,
>plus the motherboard has been now upgraded for the second time to the
latest
>verion. It works like a charm and is a great mount.
>
>As far as a checlklist goes, it's just like buying a corvette, an
experienced
>corvette owner knows what to look for and doesn't need a checklist, others
>could use a checklist and never know what they are actually looking for.
>

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