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Originally Posted by glend
Stick a GSO mirror in it, if your going to keep it. Bintel sell them. Of course it's pretty cheap to just buy a GSO 200mm imaging newt from Andrews, if you really want that apeture.
Honestly, a scope with that list of problems probably is best given away to a youngster to play with, or put out in the Council cleanup/recycle. Trying to resurrect it is just going to be frustrating and involve more money.
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Why? The figure is still perfect, and I seriously doubt that a few small scratches - small as in you need to get CLOSE to the mirror to see them - is going to affect it at all.
The rest of the scope is a dog's breakfast that I am determined to fix up. I just reblackened the rear housing of the mirror, and it already looks a fair bit better.
Long road ahead, but should be OK in the end.
If all else fails, I will put it up as a freebie for someone who can PROVE it will be for institutional use, not personal rubbing-hands glee...