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Resurrecting an MT160
As a favour for my club, the Canberra Astronomical Society, I volunteered to tidy up a very old Takahashi MT160 that had been unused and unloved for quite some time.....
By chance a friend and the club's Outreach Officer brought the rather sad looking Tak to an observing session two weeks ago.....
Long story short, the MT160 had been clad in starry fabric that had been glued onto the OTA and inside it had sheets of flocking paper that had long ago lost its grip on the metal tube....
I spent three days tidying it up and here she is:
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