Dan Heim wrote: >Stan et al. > >One of the guys in my club had a similar problem and ended up replacing the >whole paddle + cable system ... now it works fine. > >This may go back to an earlier discussion regarding how Meade has changed >over the last 10 years. Probably cheap cable. You'd think they'd use a >cable with decent stranded (more flexible) wires, but I wouldn't be >surprised if they were using solid a.o.t. stranded. Did you ever strip that >old cable to see what the internal wires were? > > I didn't take it apart, but the plastic clip is transparent. Under the binocular microscope I could see twisted wires. So it appears they are twisted wires, not a single solid wire for each of the four, and they are copper in color. Stan -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.