[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Originally Posted by stephenb

I purchased my Lunt Ha60 direct from Lunt. Rikki Hocking in Customer Service was fantastic to deal with.

I originally was going to buy through a Lunt dealer in Oz but I was told the production time was 3 months and I had to pay full cost up front.

I immediately contacted Lunt in the US and was quoted a lead time of 10 days from purchase to dispatch (owing to back log in production). Shipped via UPS, tracked every kilometre from Austin TX to UPS's Loiusville Air Hub, then on board UPS34 as it hopped to Honolulu and Sydney. Arrived within 2 days. So all up about 12-13 days from payment to arriving on my doorstep. That was 12 months ago so things may have improved.

Thanks for letting me know that you had a good experience Stephen.

Originally Posted by Max Vondel

I purchased a Lunt solar wedge about 6 month's ago.
Shipped in from the USA all went well....no nasty surprises

But don't forget GST on purchases over $1000-

Similiarly, I also purchased 2 Quicksilver Monoblocks from the US.
Only $1300- but had to pay $450- in customs clearance etc...!
(and 1 block blew out a major capacitor within 5 hours use on standard KT88 valves!)

So check how they intent to send it, standard customs clearance sucks!

Ouch! I'll keep that in mind, thanks Peter.

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Greg,
I have used many PST's over the last few years, and modded a few of them along the way.
I can assure you 100% that the current production PST ( with the blue objectives) do NOT have the issue with "rusting"
Infact I haven't seen a "rust" objective on any serial above, I think,#102000
This is becoming an urban legend and should NOT stop you considering a PST or any other Coronado product.
Please please feel to pass this message to your friend.
(I detail the rust issue etc in my PST mod write-up -available on request)

Thank you very much for clarifying that Merlin. I'll let my friend know. I'll keep that in mind when I make my decission.