Meade illuminated EP supplied without lens caps?

[Specman]

Hi,

Just purchased this EP

Meade 12mm Illuminated Reticle Eyepiece (Wireless)

and it turned up without lens caps!

Spoke to Telescope House and they told me it was money saving cut backs

Is it just me or is anybody else wondering how much can be saved by not including tuppence worth of caps?

I ordered this model previously

Meade 9mm Illuminated Reticle Eyepiece (Wireless)

and caps were supplied with it....

Am I just being fed BS or has anybody else experienced this?

Cheers

Mark

[david o]

Hi Mark,

I bought one of those, albeit second hand. It came in a cheap cardboard box without dust-caps.

From the design of the packaging I got the distinct impression that that was the way it came from Meade.

[Johnboy2011]

Hi Mark,

Just a silly question, why would you need both? Is there a difference apart from mag?

John

[Specman]

Hi Mark,

Just a silly question, why would you need both? Is there a difference apart from mag?

John

A stupid error on my part John.

The 9mm has an adjustable X,Y axis so you can move it around. I picked it purely because I prefered the illuminated target. When it arrived and I started using it i suddenly realised that there wasn't anyway of centring the reticule accurately, a click stop once centred would have made sense, but no, that would require a little thought on the part of the designers!

I have a few of these illuminated EP's now and the Meade range is definitely the best of a bad lot. I will probably sell off my Orion and my Meade with the adjustable X,Y axis now.

The Orion cost me £120 and I had to repair it and mod it to make it servicable when it arrived (in bits!) . Put me right off buying anymore Orion stuff.

Clear skies!

Mark

[astroimpulse]

Hi have an astrometric Meade IREP and it too came with no end caps. Guess it's because they think people don't care about protecting them like observing eps.

They're wrong...of course

[Mav359]

I just recieved my 9mm and that didn't have any either

[F15Rules]

Did it come in a plastic bolt case?

I ordered a Meade SWA 20mm recently and although it didn't have end caps it did come in a nice plastic bolt case.

I actually prefer bolt cases as they protect the EP more, and I find the small dustcaps a pain...if you use 5 or 6 eps in a session, they always end up going back on the wrong eps anyway, and then you find you have a too loose or too tight fit (especially if you've been using different brands of ep!)..

but I agree that if there was not bolt case either it's a pretty poor show, innit!

Dave