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Subject: Re: [M]: [M] Repairs and Reputations
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Dec 30 00:29:57 1997

At 1:20 PM -0800 12/22/97, wayne t. watson wrote:
>... You might try a Dobsonian. It can give you
>a lot of return for a fairly low investment...

And all that fancy stuff that a Dob doesn't have won't break :-) Many of
my friends have Dobs. The only real problem I can remember that might have
spoiled a night of observing was one friend whose secondary mirror holder
broke. We fixed it with bailing wire and duct tape and he was OK for the
night. Try that with a broken LX200!

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Bill Arnett "Science is a way of trying
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