Re: C11 Mirror dance

Sometimes racking the mirror all the way in and all the way out will let
it pickup grease that has been pushed out of the usual range of movement
and can help a little with the mirror shift.

Rich

> My C11 suffers from mirror flop - not a great deal to get somewhat OK
> focus, but serious enough to make accurate focusing a daunting task. I
> fact, ligthly knocking on the tube already makes the mirror dance a bit
> (even it does end up in the same place all the time), so I'm not sure
> I'd call this just a "mirror flop" or something else.
>
> Before sending it to Celestron, does anyone know someone local who might
> have experience taking a C11 apart and getting this kind of problems
> fixed or at least improved? I'd be happy to pay a fee for the job of
> course. Or any hint about how to "DIY"?
>
> Thanks,
> Rogelio
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