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Hi Peter,
If you haven't already bought a new eyepiece it is worth checking with Televue what the repair cost would be. It could certainly be repaired. My friend Andrew Murrell had a 24mm Televue Widefield repaired several years after they were out of production.
The sad thing is all this could have been avoided with a 3 cent dab of loctite on the eyepiece barrell threads. Why eyepiece manufacturers do not do this is beyond me. Televue isn't the only manufacturer that needs to look at this, but I have had the threads on several of my Televue eyepieces work loose over time. I religiously check them and re tighten them. The barrels on my Pentax XW eyepieces haven't moved in the 8 or 9 years I have owned them. The threads on my UO HD orthos have certainly work loose like the Televues on a few occasions.
Cheers,
John B
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