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Old 25-04-2017, 09:16 AM
PeterSEllis (Peter)
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Originally Posted by jenchris View Post
Great story.
When I bought (new) my 8 inch meade, the secondary holder was loose in the corrector plate and could be easily rotated.
I just tightened it and hoped for the best. I did collimate it of course.
It seems to be ok . So either I'm lucky or it doesn't really matter.
Hi Jennifer,

I think that Meade purposely offset the secondary in the corrector plate. I had to do a lot of searching of the NET to find anything on the subject, and if the offset caused serious problems, then the NET would have lit up like a Christmas tree, when we have problems we are fast tell everyone about them. Meade has been around a long time and has a good reputation, if they where that sloppy they wouldn't be still in business .

Cheers
Peter

Last edited by PeterSEllis; 25-04-2017 at 04:47 PM.
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