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Originally Posted by Kokatha man
Struth Geoff! - I know I'm as guilty as the next old codger when it comes to 'memberin' the "good ol' days of my youth;" but those piccies brought me down with a thud bro!
I'm feelin' real old at the mo' - an unless you tell me that was a typo, and the ep was really pre WW2 I'm going out t' buy some "Grecian 2000" jist to make me feel better - not that there's too much hair for it to work on!
I have nothing left from the era I mainly referred to in my prior post, (late 50's - very early 60's) though I still have my 8" mirror and secondary (flat) from the early 70's.
As I tell people these days, you didn't have much/any choice but to "grind your own" in those days - even in the early 70's a 12 and a 1/2 inch Cassegrain, EQ with optional drive on pier was $2000 from "Astronomical Supplies" at Crows Nest. This was literally then a "Dream Scope" and that amount equates to 15+ thousand if compared to a basket of costs and wages etc today. "The good old days!"
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No this was bought in the 1960's. I was living in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) at the time and got it mail order from England. I think the Poms were a bit behind the time, because I remember Patrick Moore at the time describing English eyepieces as terrible--tiny lenses buried in a chunk of brass, so maybe what you could get in Oz at the time would have been more modern. As for grinding your own mirror--the only way to go in those days.
Geoff