It may very well be that their quality is slipping; there is so much pressure on price these days that everything else seems to suffer. In Jay's case, with his price range limiting him to used equipment (except the ST80), he may actually be better off getting something a little older. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to apologize to Debbie, and the list members at large, as my reply was made in haste and is obviously confrontational, read in retrospect.
I have purchased 2 WO accessories (neither was an optical tube). One, bought several years ago, was impeccable, the other, purchased more recently, had obvious manufacturing flaws. I returned it to the seller for a full refund, was not interested in an exchange. I have also heard from others of a slip in WO quality recently, one is a U-A list member who can post or remain silent as they see fit.
Every manufacturer has items that slip past QA on occassion, but when it happens to a manufacturer of high repute, it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth, sometimes for a long time.
One man's meat is another man's poison, as they say.
YMMV.
_______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php