Argh, Meade wants me to ship it back to them. After telling them that
the only $250 shipping charge I'd be spending would be to send it back to
Astronomics to get a Celestron, they said they'd pick up the shipping
costs. Turn around time will be a few weeks they say. Oh well, I still
have the little 10" Dob in the garage.

Thanks for the help.

-Bob Darlington



On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bill Keicher wrote:

> Bob,
>
> I'd suggest that you contact Meade as soon as possible. I had a problem
> with the mirror lock on my LX200GPS while it was under warranty and Meade
> sent me a replacement mirror lock at no charge. The replacement was simple
> and it fixed the problem.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill Keicher
>
>
> At 11:12 PM 5/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm wondering if any of you have experienced this horrible grinding noise
> >I hear with my mirror lock knob. My brand new 14" LX200GPS (less than 2
> >weeks old) is now staring to scare me.
> >
> >Basically, I started to turn the knob clockwise to release the mirror for
> >focus (it was not tight by any means) and it sounds like the teeth are
> >skipping. I first thought the set screws were just loose but that was not
> >the case. I removed the three hex screws and took out the whole assembly.
> >One of the teeth on that cyllindrical gear looks slightly worn down, but
> >that's just one out of very many. It's not worn down much in comparison
> >to the height of the others, I can just make out a difference. I put it
> >back together and all seemed well. 15 minutes ago I experienced the same
> >thing. When I had it apart I tested it for any kind of built in clutch
> >and it doesn't seem to have anything like that. It feels like the teeth
> >are not meshing properly. Is it possible the hole for the mirror lock is
> >not dead on? Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Bob Darlington
> >
> >ps, pix of the new scope:
> >http://www.pihkal.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=telescope
>
>
>

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