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Originally Posted by thomqos
Love your rig Peter! Boy, that TEC-180 has me salivating!
How did you get your scopes? I presume you dealt directly with TEC?
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Well, got to say that the TEC180 was a very lucky find for me. I wasn't shopping for one but was trying to decide what to put on my new MEII mount. I was contemplating an Orion Optices scope and the guy selling the Orion was closing down an observatory at Coona where he had this TEC180. I immediately asked if he would part with the TEC180 and he said flatly "no." A few days passed and I decided that I didn't want to procede with the Orion scope purchase and he came back to me with an offer to sell the TEC180. The rest is history!!
But, I did buy the TEC140 directly from Yuri a few years ago. I carried it back through customs after a business trip to the USA. No dramas there and it traveled in baggage in the normal TEC case.
Peter