After having my Celestron SLT 130 telescope for some 10 years now, yesterday it broke. Exactly before the total solar eclipse next month...after I was preparing so much for it.
What broke? This shitty little plastic gear that got worn out over the years:
That's all. A terrible design pairing such badly made gears with metal ones. And now I cannot control the left/right movements of my telescope. And I cannot find a way to replace it. Or to buy the entire motor... Unless, maybe, I order it from USA/Canada and I pay a lot of money and may not arrive in time for the eclipse.
Hey Universe, not enough that I was already in a black hole mentally? You want more?! What else next ha?!
I give up man... :))
Fuck this shit. All of it. I wish I could sleep and just sleep. And not dream. But I can't even sleep for the past weeks. And when I do I always have nightmares.
Welcome to my downfall.
Is fine...I think I will survive. But that's the last thing I needed for the telescope to break. I also don't feel like buying a different one since it works, is just a little fucking gear/wheel....is just that I also broke something else when I opened it...so I likely need to get the entire engine for it...
I wish life was a stupid game and I can say: ok that's it, turn it off. I'll go back to the real life and not play this stupid game again.
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Doug Webb
in reply to Tio • • •sucks, sorry.
Tools are an extension of our bodies: we now have more than ever before but they all have like 1 hit-point and no spares.
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Rokosun
in reply to Tio • • •Oof, sorry to hear that man. Funny how little things like that gear breaking can be such a pain and annoyance, especially when you're already in a terrible mental state.
Are you sure that you can't replace that gear? I mean gears are so common that I thought should be easy to get a spare, but yeah I guess is not so easy like that..... This might be a long shot but have you ever thought about 3D printing one? Maybe would be too much work to design these I guess.
Tio
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in reply to Rokosun • • •Well planned obsolescence is not like they plan it for X years after which the product breaks...they add shitty parts as a normal thing and then when the products do not work, or do not work well, people are inclined to buy new ones. And ye sis 10 years but I didnt use this telescope nowhere near as much as most people probably would...
In any case is an absolute terrible design.