Orion 80ED focus knob grips.

I went to use my 80ED last night and the grips fell off both focus
knobs! They were perished-looking and had both snapped.

My ED is mounted on an LX200 in a roll-off observatory. It can't be
heat (never gets hot) so I assume recent frosts must have done the
damage (despite having a frost heater)?

Pretty minor - but something to look out for. Anyone else had this
problem?

Cheers
Beats

PS. A couple of fat rubber bands are serving as ugly-but-effective
replacements...

"justbeats" wrote in message
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I went to use my 80ED last night and the grips fell off both focus
knobs! They were perished-looking and had both snapped.

My ED is mounted on an LX200 in a roll-off observatory. It can't be
heat (never gets hot) so I assume recent frosts must have done the
damage (despite having a frost heater)?

Pretty minor - but something to look out for. Anyone else had this
problem?

Cheers
Beats

PS. A couple of fat rubber bands are serving as ugly-but-effective
replacements...


Sounds like you might be a candidate for these:

http://www.telescope.com/shopping/pr...um+focus+wheel

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On 19 Apr 2005 05:33:06 -0700, "justbeats"
wrote:

I went to use my 80ED last night and the grips fell off both focus
knobs! They were perished-looking and had both snapped.

My ED is mounted on an LX200 in a roll-off observatory. It can't be
heat (never gets hot) so I assume recent frosts must have done the
damage (despite having a frost heater)?

Pretty minor - but something to look out for. Anyone else had this
problem?

Cheers
Beats

I seem to remember a line out of "The Andromeda Strain" about all the
rubber dissolving....
-Rich

Jan Owen wrote:
"justbeats" wrote in message
oups.com...

I went to use my 80ED last night and the grips fell off both focus
knobs! They were perished-looking and had both snapped.

...
Sounds like you might be a candidate for these:

http://www.telescope.com/shopping/pr...um+focus+wheel

hehe.. I love the "Sport Aluminium" ones..
They look like really flashy rims for a car..

I just picture a show on discovery channel: Pimp my Scope, where a gang
of crazy rappers beef up battered old telescopes by replacing the
standard bits by things like shiny new Sport Aluminium Focus Wheels and
painting flames down the side of the OTA itself.. ;-)

Clear Skies,

Joerg

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