Re: [APML] G11 Tracking problem (double star)

[Greg Mueller <mueller@silverlink.net>]

The point I'm trying to make is that people looking for a mount to buy,
listen to the reviews of mounts on here (as I did) and from that
listening think that this is a mount you can buy and use for $1900ish
dollars. Nobody tells them about the new gears or motors or tinkering or
rebuilding or large amounts of money that can equal the purchase cost,
that they must invest to get it to work. It's only after they get it
home and the reality of the situation sets in, that they realize all
these things. I really don't consider it "bashing" to explain that that
$1900ish dollars is only the down payment on the mount and it won't be
until after another spendy investment of time and/or money that it will
work properly. If the truth was told by all the supporters of the G11
each would have a list of modifications attached to the "great mount"
statement. And these ares not isolated incidents. Every time someone
says to me "it's a great mount" I ask them what they have done to it and
it always winds up that it involves new gears or motors or bearings or
all of the above. One guy had to put in new gears twice (but it's a
great mount NOW). Another guy who raved about it admitted later that
"well yes I have to take a tool kit with me to keep it working. You get
used to doing repairs". This might be considered "bashing" but I
consider it truth in advertising and I really hope that this "bashing"
I'm doing will help open someone's eye to the fact that when you lay
your hard earned money down for the "great" G11 mount, it's only the
beginning. I wish someone would have posted this letter before I spent
my money on one.
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Greg Mueller   Port Gamble, Washington
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut

Tech Tools and Astronomer's Gizmos
http://www.muellersatomics.com/
Homepage
http://users.silverlink.net/~mueller/
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