Dan,

Now THAT's an idea worth pursuing! I have a hobby shop about three
blocks from my house -- no gas needed to get there. SuperGlue I've got.

Still interested if anyone has a spare drawtube, or an unused DS70 or
DS80 they don't want.

Tony M
central OH

--- In Meade-DS-Telescopes@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Holmes"
<danielh@...> wrote:
>
> The same thing happend to me, my DS80 fell over in a freak windstorm.
>
> Anyway, I pulled the drawtube out, and looked at where the teeth
> were missing. I then fashioned some replacements with strip styrene
> from a hobby shop, and glued them on with super glue. That was 4
> years ago, and it still works like a champ.
>
> Dan
>