Re: Tasco, the Packard Bell of Telescopes (ripped from a message board, your thoughts on my issues please)

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:48:36 -0700

Hay! This is being posted via a Packard Bell machine, slower than a slug on
ice, as kulzie as Dim.Min. and it sits here without any sides on it so I can
operate on it when needed, but it works. 

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"Fu Manchu" <fu@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:guekh054uvcrhjctqj89igre6qganv5n3b@4ax.com...
> original message thread, kinda funny
> http://flyingmice.com/cgi-bin/squidcgi/mbmessage.pl/space/295.shtml
>
> my response:
>
> I saw this post and had to laugh and respond. I have had this scope
> for 20 years and only recently gotten back into astronomy. It is in
> quite good shape still. Problem is, I need to clean the primary mirror
> and cant figure out how to take the back of the scope off without
> possibly messing up the mirror alignment. I agree, the stock .965"
> ep's are horrid, and id like to get an adapter for the focuser to bump
> it up to 1.25" but its all useless unless i can figure out how to
> clean the primary mirror.
>
> last night i tried to look at the globular cluster and all i could see
> was a smudge. i think if i cleaned the primary and got some 1.25 ep's
> i might be able to limp by with this scope til i save up for another.
>
> so, have you taken the primary mirror off yours? does the whole back
> come off? lookin at the tube from the side, do i loosen the three
> small screws that screw through the tube into the back piece. or
> looking at the tube end on from the back, do i loosen the large
> phillips screws or loosen the thumb screws.
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