Its simple. You see a scope and it obviously needs a good home. There are mad cat women, people who collect spoons, hoarders of all types. Telescopes are a thing of beauty, timeless in a lot of respects, don't offend people (unless pointed into neighbours bathrooms) and represent a challenge to their owners to perfect and maximise their performance. Mine would not be regarded by many as good scopes, but they've all been stripped and rebuilt (I'm inquisitive by nature) and have their own individual look (the old flames around the aperture trick) My favourite is a 12" dob, 28mm UWAN, laser finder, finderscope, and a piggybacked Mak90. The mak doubles as an illuminated reticle finder on those really dark nights, and is mounted low enough on the tube to both balance out the UWAN, and its other duty is providing my grandson with an ideal viewing height so he can also see what I'm gazing at without being boosted up. It's all a hodgepodge of homemade and modified proprietary gear, its as ugly as sin, but we love it. (Next week it'll have a digital inclinometer and a digital compass, so it will be "pimped"! There was a time when the house was being over-run, now theres a dedicated thermostat/fan cooled and dehumidified shed . Its full. But that DOES NOT mean I've got too many!
I'm always on the lookout for more scopes!
