[AZ-Observing] Re: Cable Gone Out
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:10:10 -0700
p.s., there are six small wires that make up each twisted wire.
Does anyone know if the plastic clips at each end of the cable are
standard sizes? If so, it seems one could buy these clips and repair the
broken cable oneself.
Stan
Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>Dan Heim wrote:
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>>Stan et al.
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>>One of the guys in my club had a similar problem and ended up replacing the
>>whole paddle + cable system ... now it works fine.
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>>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?
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>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
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