Well, doesn't this just suck
Aug. 3rd, 2005 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anysiaI have been having a problem with the EQ mount on my 'scope. If I lower it any lower than 30 degrees, it will suddenly flop and drop forward. I have caught it before it has impacted on the tripod, but this should not be happening.
I emailed the seller, and he forwarded it to the manufacturer. I have carefully examined the latitude control knob, and what I see is this: the gear teeth on the part that is gripped by the latitude knob aren't quite right. At 0 degrees, they should be pretty much equal front and back, but they aren't. They extend way the hell up the back, and nothing visible in the front.
But even though I sent photograph to the manufacturer, I have been told this: We have received your mails also the mails transferred from Optrons Germany. We are studying the reasons now in the factory. We will try our best to give you a positive reply within this week.
This damned thing is still under warranty, so I don't know why they are hemming and hawing. A week? I know I wanted to get an EQ3 or EQ5, but not this soon, but with the way they are dicking me around, I might just do it now, and when I get the new mount, buy some rings, get a bar made for between them, and turn the old alt azm into a polar alignment. It's lightweight enough not to need the counter weight.
The other thing is at least right now everything I want to view/photograph are at least 45 degrees from the horizon, but it's still chapping my ass.
I emailed the seller, and he forwarded it to the manufacturer. I have carefully examined the latitude control knob, and what I see is this: the gear teeth on the part that is gripped by the latitude knob aren't quite right. At 0 degrees, they should be pretty much equal front and back, but they aren't. They extend way the hell up the back, and nothing visible in the front.
But even though I sent photograph to the manufacturer, I have been told this: We have received your mails also the mails transferred from Optrons Germany. We are studying the reasons now in the factory. We will try our best to give you a positive reply within this week.
This damned thing is still under warranty, so I don't know why they are hemming and hawing. A week? I know I wanted to get an EQ3 or EQ5, but not this soon, but with the way they are dicking me around, I might just do it now, and when I get the new mount, buy some rings, get a bar made for between them, and turn the old alt azm into a polar alignment. It's lightweight enough not to need the counter weight.
The other thing is at least right now everything I want to view/photograph are at least 45 degrees from the horizon, but it's still chapping my ass.
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Date: 2005-08-03 03:06 pm (UTC)Maybe it time to get that c5 mount.. I also heard meade's lxd is good, and orion's sky view pro. All seem to be versions of the #5 tubular mount.
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Date: 2005-08-03 11:34 pm (UTC)What I am mostly waiting for is to hear from the manufacturer of MY telescope, is what they are going to sock me with postage. Personally, they should suck it up because it's their equipment that is faulty, but that would only happen in a perfect world. So, the cost of me mailing a 20lb package to wherever and probably being charged postage to get the new mount too, might be worth my while to just order the eq3.
A logical woman... who would have thunk it.;)