I've also just read the thread. So happy that this is happening in Australia.
I tried to follow Tom's link to astrobin but got a 404 error. Is #001 still pumping out images that we can take a look at? or #000 for that matter?! (edit: found it. threw beamtech into the astrobin search bar... its there
https://www.astrobin.com/search/?q=beamtech )
Thanks for the write up and answering the questions, too, Stefan. A massive achievement.