I again note that we have an immediate extreme need for a good shop manual
for Meade scopes with good photos, diagrams and descriptions of
assembly/disassembly, adjustment, alignment, and repair proceedures, etc etc
etc.

Why doesnt Meade provide this service. Why doesnt some entreprenurial
individual or group provide this service. Much of the material on MAPUG
provides this sort of info but it is difficult for new users like many of us
are to interpret and some of it is dated and there are information gaps
which leads to great risk on the part of an inexperienced owner in taking
the scope apart. I am very good and very experienced at things mechanical
but I have no confidence in my ability to tear this telescope apart because
there is no absolutely reliable reference to guide me.

I asked before if anybody would join me in indicating a willingness to pay
for a manual and I will contact Meade. If Meade ignores us maybe the
expression of interest will produce a manual from a 3rd party. Speak up if
interested.

Regards

Bill Wood

-----Original Message-----
Nikolidakis George
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:05 AM
Subject: [M]: directions for RA disassemble


Hi list.
My telescope (12' LX200 ) has a mysterious behavior that makes me think to
disassemble the entire RA drive.
I discover this behavior after some failures in the astrophotography.
The failures happened just because without any reason suddenly the guiding
star disappeared from the reticle eyepiece with a short metallic noise
present
and of course any photograph was destroyed.
So the last night I setup the telescope on the wedge pointing to the Polaris

without any power and the RA knob released trying to figure out what is
happen.
I surprisingly discovered that when I rotate the telescope in RA handling
just
the forks there was an area around which a leaping is happen.
The leaping is happen every time the telescope pass the area moving
bi-directional.
In the point the leaping is happen I can see the Polaris drifting rapid
several
arc minutes away and also some times I can hear the short soft metallic
noise.
Note that the telescope rotates complete free around this area .
In the first test I thought that a mirror shift is happen but after a few
more test
I was sure all the entire fork system is leaping.
So now I am in the position to disassemble the mount removing the upper
metallic case and facing something that it seems it is the ball-bearing.
So now I need directions of how to proceed and disassemble the RA or better
some photographs from the RA disassembled that I remember
I saw once upon a time but I can' t find them again.
Thanks
George Nikolidakis
http://www.geocities.com/ginik_gr

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