My old 1970's Mizar ( Japanese ) 80mm f 12 refractor in its beat up clothes as I got it off Gumtree locally for $150 , its only scrapes and scratches so easily fixed and optically its superb
easily as good as my 90mm f10 Saxon but not as good as the 102mm f10 .
The eyepieces are ok for .965 Japanese supplied .
The mount is awesome , looks like those cheep chinese EQ,s ( EQ3.2 ? ) but trust me it is not the same ! its very solid , almost as good in use as my Vixen SP with a solid tripod holding it all up .
As a bonus it came with a brand new
RA drive that had never been opened or fitted , quite the bonus on a $150 scope .
It will be my next project
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Brian.