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Originally Posted by Robert_T
Hi Dennis, it's a loong story... it went something like this, I had the 210 first for about 6-9 months and it was very nice. An issue "developed" with the seating of the primary mirror (I think) and I had to send it back to AEC for despatch back to Japan to get it fixed. This was going to take many months and I don't like waiting! I asked Claude if he'd swap it for a new Mewlon 180 with some tak accessories thrown in to make the difference and I took delivery of these straight away... I has seriously thought at this point of swapping up to the Mewlon 250 cause I desperately wanted the extra aperture. Once I'd just about settled to do that I realised for around 1/2th the price I could get the Mewlon 180 AND get a C9.25 for that extra bit of oomph! SOmehow I managed to end up with two new OTA's and still feel like I'd saved $5K.... isn't self delusion a wonderful thing 
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Thanks Robert - Hopefully still relevant to the spirit of the original question, I almost convinced myself to get the Mewlon 210 and ditch the C9.25, but upon browsing the web for photos taken with a Mewlon 210, decided to stick with the C9.25. Some images I had taken with the C9.25 seemed every bit as good as the very few Mewlon 210 images, which were as rare as hen's teeth by the way.
In the hands of an imaging expert, on those nights where the seeing allowed it, the Mewlon 210 would probably deliver a “better” image than the C9.25, but that slight edge or improvement wasn’t worth the additional cost, disruption and effort in changing my OTA, considering that upgrading various SCT accessories to Tak equivalents would have cost me an arm and a leg.
Cheers
Dennis