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Originally Posted by Zubenel
Needless to say I won't be a repeat customer as they had my mirror for months for the re-coat.  |
I don't like your chances finding anywhere else in Australia to recoat your mirror with an enhanced coating and at an affordable price. Saintech Ion beam Systems manufacture ion beam deposition systems used in Coating plants. They are shifting manufacture of same to USA and I encouraged Wayne to get their 32" capacity research coating plant up and running to coat amateur astronomical optics. We have not had an affordable enhanced coatings available before .
Laserdyne in Qld quoted me $3000 to do an enhanced coating on a 20" mirror in 1999 ! Issac at Chi Qin Co does not offer any service that does not involve the expense and delays of sending mirrors to China, and he never offered Ion assisted deposition enhanced coatings in Australia.
As Saintech continue to invest significant sums of money money in getting their system up to 32" capability I hope the amateur astronomy community will support them and cut them a little slack as they reorganize focus of the business from manufacturing to coating and get to full capacity. We are very lucky to have a couple of PHD graduates to design and implement very effective coatings for the future.