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Originally Posted by Merlin66
They don't come much better than Horace! Unfortunately in todays era of "30 second" sound bites, new amateurs don't seem to have the same need/ wish/ desire to grind and build instruments. It seemed to have died out in the 70's.
How many of us, I wonder, started out with a basic 6" f8 and a couple of Ramsden ( what's that?... like an Ethos??) eyepieces............... Ah those were the days.
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I did brudda - but them days is long, long gone; drifted back into the days of yore with all those other memories; like how much it used to cost to buy.....and, when I was a boy we used to.....
As for yer ramsdens, I had t' dreams about thems whilst I saved me pennies; makin' do with those huygens things!