My Lightbridge arrived in 2 boxes which were extremely well packed - apart from one thing...... When I opened the bottom tube containing the mirror, the incredibly flimsy plastic dust cover had come adrift somewhere between Taiwan, USA, Gold Coast. It had been rolling around inside and there are dozens of scratches all over the matt black painted inside. There seemed to be a few minor scratches on the mirror as well. So what do I do? Send it back and lose out on say 3 months of viewing? Or put up with it. Think I'll do the latter - can't bear the thought of not taking it to Bunya Mountain next week.... If somebody has access to Meade, please get them to make the dust cover more substantial and incapable of coming adrift during transit (maybe wedge a piece of polystryene on top of the cover?)
