On Thursday, June 7, 2001, at 04:06 PM, Chris Sauer wrote:

> All,
>
> A few weeks back there was some discussion regarding flocking the
> inside of
> the LX200 secondary, OTA and baffle tube. If any of you have flocked
> the
> secondary housing by using the sticky backing, I urge you to check and
> make
> sure the flocking has good adherence to the housing walls. The
> flocking on
> mine decided to come off and fell onto the primary mirror. Once on the
> mirror, it had no problem sticking like crazy. In fact, it wouldn't
> come
> off and I trashed my primary in the process of trying to unstick it.
> My 12"
> is now on the way back to Meade for a complete optics replacement. I
> strongly urge anyone who has made this modification to go ahead and make
> sure it is ok. The optics replacement on the 12" is $1750.00. I would
> hate
> to see anyone else have to go through the aggravation and anguish I
> suffered
> this past weekend.

Yikes! What damage was caused to your mirror? Pull the coating off?
If that's all that's wrong, you ought to be able to get it re-aluminized
for a LOT less than $1750!

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Bill Arnett
http://nineplanets.org/ 37 27 38 N 122 16 11 W

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