Rich Samuels wrote:

Edmund is a very good company. They can be expensive, yes, but their
equipment is first class and always backed up by the firm.

They don't have the stock to back up their discontinued products.
I bought my Edmund Scientific eight inch Newtonian in England in
1982. When I moved to the USA I had it shipped to New Jersey (!):
unfortunately, I hadn't removed the eyepiece equipment and the
shipping company lost it after they removed everything from the
eyepiece mount (thankfully not the rack and pinion). The original
2"-1.25" adapter and special piece accepted a lens or a
lens barlow combination and a 'T' adapter.
All I could get to replace it, without involving a machine shop,
is a compromise where I have to put an extension into the new
2"-1.25" adapter for the lens and take it out for the barlow-lens
- disappointing, but at least I can use the telescope.

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Ian Stirling, G4ICV, AB2GR, Long Valley, New Jersey, USA.
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