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Originally Posted by MortonH
Years ago I had a Celestron C8 with heavy duty wedge & tripod. One night I was observing in my parents' yard and I decided to move the scope to view some other objects. Lifted the whole thing up and one of the tripod legs fell off! Ended up with a bit of back strain before someone came to help but the scope survived intact.
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Happened to me as well,20 years ago,
but no back strain
I still bare the after mark of a Nagler 13mm type 1 dropping out of my Celestron SCT from a hight of about 1meter and landing on my bare foot and smashing one of my toes, Wow the pain
but no damage to the eyepiece
Cheers
