8 inch Celestron manual please

[tonyindarwin]

Is there anyone who can help me with obtaining information about refurbishing this telescope. A friend gave it to me and it is in desperate need of restoration. I have reasonably good mechanical ability and the logistics are within my grasp, but I have no experience with telescopes. I feel there must be something on line but my computer skills are not up to the task. Thanks.

[garin (Garin)]

Tony, you didn't say what mount configuration the C8 is on, but the following link will take you to Company Seven web-site notes page. From there you can download the original Celestron C8 and Celestar C8 manuals - http://www.company7.com/library/celestron/notes.html

Also here is the Celestron site with the later C8 mounts/otas, you may need to go to their 'download archives' forn the older C8's.
http://www.celestron.com/c3/downloads.php

Cheers
Garin

[Astrobserver99 (Rob)]

Cloudy Nights have an article on dismantling and servicing a C8. Can't remember the link at present but a search on cloudy nightts should turn iit up

Added:

Here is the link:

http://www.astromart.com/articles/ar...article_id=594

Astromart, not cloudy nights.