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Old 14-07-2012, 05:41 PM
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Hi Guys and Gals. Has anyone ever experienced sag or deformation of parts .......gravity would gradually deform parts to the point of where the scope or mount is useless or inaccurate. Has anyone experienced this or thought of this?Steve
shouldnt unless the wrong metals or massively overloaded, there are a lot of very old telescopes around without any sag. If you overload or under engineer it could. A bigger worry is the newer electronic ones will fail eventually , whereas a mechanical should go on and on ......
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