An old telescope

[cutepetgroomer]

Posting here as I think this is best spot .. anyways my husband just informed there’s a great chance I’ll recover my old reflector telescope from a storage unit we thought we lost a few years back 

[reezeh]

That's good news 

[badhex]

Always nice to be reunited with an old friend! Any details on what this scope might be? 

[cutepetgroomer]

All I can recall is that it’s an eq mount reflector scope . Turquoise colored tube.. I can’t remember if it’s 114 mm or 130 mm in aperture ..  I think it was an Orion brand .. 

[badhex]

Nice. Would be great to see some pics and a first light report once you're reunited and set up! 

[cutepetgroomer]

Next week is when we can get all our stuff from the storage unit so we’re getting excited to see what all we can recover 

[cutepetgroomer]

Well; we got the stuff from storage and looks like items were stolen; my husband isn’t happy about that as it was a different lock on our unit (put there by the owner of the place ) and stuff got stolen .. video game system in addition to the telescope and eyepieces ... 

[Stu]

15 minutes ago, cutepetgroomer said:

Well; we got the stuff from storage and looks like items were stolen; my husband isn’t happy about that as it was a different lock on our unit (put there by the owner of the place ) and stuff got stolen .. video game system in addition to the telescope and eyepieces ... 

Sorry to hear that. Was it insured at all? I assume someone cut the lock off?

[Louis D]

Well, if you weren't paying rental fees on the unit all those years, consider the losses as payment toward unpaid rental fees.  It might have been the owner pilfering the cream of the crop on you.  If you were paying rental fees, the owner had no right to change the lock, and you've probably got a legal case against them.

[badhex]

11 hours ago, cutepetgroomer said:

Well; we got the stuff from storage and looks like items were stolen; my husband isn’t happy about that as it was a different lock on our unit (put there by the owner of the place ) and stuff got stolen .. video game system in addition to the telescope and eyepieces ... 

Oh no, that is terrible news. Has the owner been able to shed any light on what happened? 

[cutepetgroomer]

On 07/06/2021 at 14:26, Louis D said:

Well, if you weren't paying rental fees on the unit all those years, consider the losses as payment toward unpaid rental fees.  It might have been the owner pilfering the cream of the crop on you.  If you were paying rental fees, the owner had no right to change the lock, and you've probably got a legal case against them.

We were paying on it .. but we’re out of state when someone was caught going into said unit so the owner of unit decided not to charge us for last few months to make up for their slack in watching it better .. someone apparently fooled a new employee that it was my husband.. wasn’t discovered until husband called to make payment as usual 

[Louis D]

47 minutes ago, cutepetgroomer said:

We were paying on it .. but we’re out of state when someone was caught going into said unit so the owner of unit decided not to charge us for last few months to make up for their slack in watching it better .. someone apparently fooled a new employee that it was my husband.. wasn’t discovered until husband called to make payment as usual 

Unless the cost of forgiven rent exceeds the value of what was stolen, I'd be going after them legally for this.

[Robindonne]

8 minutes ago, Louis D said:

Unless the cost of forgiven rent exceeds the value of what was stolen, I'd be going after them legally for this.

Indeed. But if the stolen value exceeds the rent, does it also exceeds the costs of the procedure.  A lawyers hour equals an 8” dobson.  

Edited June 8, 2021 by Robindonne

[Louis D]

3 hours ago, Robindonne said:

Indeed. But if the stolen value exceeds the rent, does it also exceeds the costs of the procedure.  A lawyers hour equals an 8” dobson.  

You could always look up what forms need filled out and where to file them.