Quattro spider

[ultranova]

Hi Everyone....I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to

Purchase a new spider for my SW 8 inch CF  Quattro, I think I may have 

Damaged it by over tightening the mounting thumb screws

The thin blades on one side have pulled away quite badly...

Any help would be appreciated.

Paul

[laser_jock99]

Firsts rule of Newtonian ownership......don't meddle with the secondary- leave well alone, nothing but trouble comes of it!

FLO should be able to get spare parts though.

[ultranova]

14 hours ago, laser_jock99 said:

Firsts rule of Newtonian ownership......don't meddle with the secondary- leave well alone, nothing but trouble comes of it!

FLO should be able to get spare parts though.

I hear you on the leave well alone front, the only reason I touched it was I was the fact that I was checking

it over due to collimation problems when I noticed that one of the thumb screws for the vanes was loose

which I thought was odd at the time so I tightened it up to around the same pressure as the other 3

I then checked to see that the secondary was in the middle which it wasn't , then I noticed that where the vane goes into

the secondary holder, it was bent a bit and distorted around the fixing screws.

I have had 5 newt's over the years for one reason or another have taken the secondary holder out and put back in without issues

not sure if there was a small defect on the bend of the vane that fixes to the mirror holder but it needs resolving.

I always take the line if its not broken ,don't try and fix it

ill drop FLO a email to see if its something they can get

thanks laser_jock99

Paul