How about if you remove the diagonal, put the scope corrector end down, tap
the side of the OTA until the flakes slide down to a corner, and go in
through the baffle tube with a long thin wooden dowel with cotton on the
end, a bit of dampness on the cotton and roll it around in the flakes,
should bring them out. don't use a coat hanger for scratches

John of
John & Bobbie Hilliard

"Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 3:47 AM
Subject: [M]: First Light, 10" F10 LX200


> Well shucks....
>
> I broke down and traided my 8" LX-50 for a 10 " LX-200 today. OPT gave
me a
> good deal on everything, so it was worth the 9 hour round trip drive.
Even
> in my tank that only gets 9 MPG...lol
>
> Well, I tossed the scope up on the SuperWedge mounted on my concrete pier
in
> the front yard. Walked through the polar alignment in the book, selected
> Mars and hit GOTO. Smack dab in the middle of the EP. To Cool! What
have
> I been missing!?!?
>
> Over to M57...right there again!
>
> Now a problem....there seems to be a couple pieces of aluminium chips in
the
> tube, I can see them kind of setting on the side of the tube when looking
> through the corrector plate. They are not on the optics yet, but I think
if
> I leave them in there they may end up on the optics eventually. I could
> return the scope, or I could send the scope to Meade, but how hard is it
to
> remove the corrector plate and get at these things myself? Anyone done
this
> before?
>
> TIA
> Darrell
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