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Subject: Re: Noisy RA Drive
From: Jason Ware
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue May 09 06:50:41 1995

> Lessons learned??? I don't know. maybe the manual should mention to tighten
> the RA screws every ###### siderial hours, but I really think a couple of $.05
> lock washers could have prevented it. Hope Ron Ezra sees this and takes it as
> constructive criticism.
>
This actually brings up a good point. car manufactures have a maintanence schedule, check belts, bolt, hoses every so many miles. Why not telescopes? As I have said so many times before, telescopes are mechanical, and therefore are subject to wear and and occasional loose screw.

Jason Ware

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