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Subject: Re: [M]: Opened Circuit Board Packaging
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Dec 17 00:04:17 1996

At 11:35 PM -0800 12/16/96, Michael J. Cook wrote:
>I just received the $500 repair kit from Meade, and was surprised to
>find the protective electrostatic packaging that the circuit borad comes
>in - opened!
>
>Besides installing the *new* circuit board, how can I be assured that
>this board was not mishandled some how?
>
>What is Meade trying to pull off here. We put out good money for these
>scopes (LX200) and get opened repair kits. Should I be concerned?

You're lucky. The board in the repair kit I got had obviously been
repaired: there was even a wire on the solder side of the board! (OTOH,
it does work just fine.) There is no guarentee that the components they
send you are NEW.

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Bill Arnett              billa@znet.com           http://www.seds.org/billa/

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