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Old 07-08-2005, 01:56 AM
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Soldant,

I can take a very good guess and say it wasn't a telescope shop.

There are a thousand brands of junk telescopes out there and they may all be made in the same factory, but good ones aren't. Even Tasco aren't as bad as what you are explaining.

I would certainly try for a refund. If not, make a jolly good fish-tank.

Just another question before you destroy it though. The little arms that hold the small mirror up at the Eyepeice end, are they thin flat strips of metal only about half a millimetre thick or are they a few millimetres thick?

If they are thick it is certainly one of those $2 scopes.

If they are nice thin flat ones the scope may be salvagable and made to work better.

Some cheapies can actually be improved, but not the $2 ones.
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