Help with mount

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and astronomy. I just bought a used meade lxd75 goto and there seems to be a bit of play on mount around the worm gear Assembly. Is there a place where I can get the mount serviced ?
Thanks
Gary

Hi Gary

Welcome to IFAS and to astronomy in general.

The LXD75 is an older Meade mount, I don't want to sound too pessimistic but I'm unsure if they will still service it. Many of us (I own one) use online documentation to service our mounts - assuming there is not some serious issue. Given you seem to be looking for an 'official' service the only thing I can suggest is to take a look at Meade's local dealer list:

www.meade.com/dealerlocator/#


* I don't think there's an Irish Meade site.

Hi There,

If you want you can pop the scope into us. I can have our engineer to have a look at it for you; the meshing in the gears could need adjusting if so it will be a very quick fix.

Carl.

Hi Carl ,
Thanks I really appreciate that. Would you mind if I dropped in on Friday morning and would you mind if I stayed and watch so I would know how to do it myself next time ?
Thanks so much,
Gary

good thing you didn't bother with Meade customer service,
From what I hear, you'd have to ship the mount to their factory in Mexico to have it fixed.
Is that one of the lidl scopes from a few years ago ?, if so then you were one of the lucky ones, I've heard of them blowing up straight out of the box new.

not sure if its from lidl . I just bought it second hand a couple of days ago , fingers crossed it doesn't still.