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Old 05-09-2010, 03:52 PM
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Hi guys.
Thanks for your thought.
We just got the power back on. It went out just after midnight.

House and Family all fine.
My gear seems relatively ok.
One broken Tube ring, one broken electric focuser bracket, and a lot of water inside the scopes, heater control box and mount electronics.

I had one spare tube ring the right size, so that is ok.
I will make another electric focuser bracket, and I have dried everything out .
I stripped the scopes down completely to dry them. Now to put them all back together.

Could have been a lot worse.

The most annoying part is that while we were monitoring the weather on the weather site (BOM), they cancelled the 'Severe Weather' warning about 1 hour before it hit!
Otherwise I would've brought everything inside.

But fortunately my gear seems to have survived ok.
The real test (electronics, collimation etc) will be when I fire it all up later.
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Old 05-09-2010, 04:15 PM
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That's a big relief. It sounded like it would be much worse.
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Old 05-09-2010, 04:36 PM
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Hi guys.
Thanks for your thought.
We just got the power back on. It went out just after midnight.

House and Family all fine.
My gear seems relatively ok.
One broken Tube ring, one broken electric focuser bracket, and a lot of water inside the scopes, heater control box and mount electronics.

I had one spare tube ring the right size, so that is ok.
I will make another electric focuser bracket, and I have dried everything out .
I stripped the scopes down completely to dry them. Now to put them all back together.

Could have been a lot worse.

The most annoying part is that while we were monitoring the weather on the weather site (BOM), they cancelled the 'Severe Weather' warning about 1 hour before it hit!
Otherwise I would've brought everything inside.

But fortunately my gear seems to have survived ok.
The real test (electronics, collimation etc) will be when I fire it all up later.
There is a lubricant displacer that is meant for electronics it is called INOX it even has a picture of a PC on the front. It is non-conductive, non-static, non-corrosive and non-staining I have used it in my fans in my pc to stop them being so noisy. Glad you have no major damage to your gear house and your most important family and yourself of course.
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Old 05-09-2010, 05:05 PM
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dry the lot out Ken - be careful - if in doubt dont turn anything on unless its really dried out - use a hair dryer to start with then leave it in the sun when you can - maybe a week drying out will help. Glad to hear that you guys came out the other side
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Old 05-09-2010, 05:27 PM
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i hope that no one elses family and equipment was hurt in the bad weather down south
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Old 05-09-2010, 06:24 PM
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Good to hear that your gear seems to have survived, Ken. And your house. And yourselves.
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Old 05-09-2010, 06:55 PM
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Just read this Ken. That's a shocker! Hope it all recovers.
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Old 05-09-2010, 11:01 PM
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Hope everyone and everything is ok
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