[Stefan Buda]

I myself don't use any commercially made telescopes, but whenever I do some work on one, I am shocked by the poor workmanship I see.

Yesterday I received a Meade secondary mirror for recoating and I'm appalled by the attitude that went into making it.


The carrier aluminium disc has been sliced with a circular saw without any further machining, other than drilling and tapping the mounting holes, and it's not even anodised for corrosion protection.

The mirror has been glued on eccentrically by about a millimetre and it also has a wedge error of about a millimetre. Shocking piece of rubbish.