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Its great to see a Samsom mount still functioning out there. I saw over a hundred sold whilst I was working at Astro Optical Supplies from 1985 to 1988 . I didn't appreciate at the time what a great feat this was: an Australian made production Equatorial mount that had a capacity that most of the popular Chinese mounts wouldn't even remotely be capable of.
The new owner of AOS in the 90's scrapped the mount and optical manufacturing in favor of pushing imported cardboard boxes out the door , and a most special era in Australian manufacturing and amateur astronomical history of 30 years was over.
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