[pmrid (Peter)]

One of my lingering projects is restoring an 8" Celestron Newt that has good optics but a dreadful tube. In a past life someone has first tried to paint the inside of it and embed sand in the paint. That didn't work because the sand (or whatever it was) turned out to be very reflective. So they flocked it but of course, the adhesive didn't take too well to the rough sand subsurface and soon enough, it becan to buckle and pull away. That's when I bought it (for good money but ignorant of this little piece of it's history that the IIS seller chose not to share).

So now I have a problem - how to take the tube back to metal so I can start again.

ANy ideas?

Peter