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Originally Posted by raymo
I would include the Coulter sonotube dobs that made scopes of
unprecedented size available to amateurs. I have used their 17.5"
which was optically pretty good, and they did a 29" at the very cheap price
of approx. US$3000 in the mid eighties. I don't know why or when they
ceased production.
raymo
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Hi Raymo, Coulter optical is still going, well sort of, I replaced the mirrors in my Cave 8"f6 newt a few years ago with one of their mirror kits.
http://www.e-scopes.cc/Murnaghan_Ins...Corp56469.html
Found this bit of history as well.
https://sites.google.com/site/coulterodyssey/index
I'll have a look through some of my old space magazines to see if I can the find 29" mirror add. I can remember dreaming about getting one of those big mirrors.