Re: Mead screws
From: Mick (mickmanus_88_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:30:32 GMT
"Chas" <chas2003@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I have a Meade telescope circa 1983. It does not have a model number
> on it. It does say D=L02 F=1000 f/10 Schmidt Cassagrain. Sadly a
> while back I dropped it and broke the finder scope holder. Now I
> want to make another holder but I have trouble finding the correct
> bolts for the holds pre-drilled in the scope. When a friend measured
> the scope he said the thread pitch was .75 mm. This seems right
> because when I use a "standard" metric size screw it screws in a ways
> and then jam
Why don't you re-thread the holes to a size of your choice and fix it that
way?
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