So, who bought this then?

[torana68 (Roger)]

Just wondering, this beast will be in a new home soon , was it someone from here?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AU:1123

hopefully the high bidder knows more about it than is in the listing otherwise a braver person than me....

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

Not I but I wish I could afford it.

Adrian

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

Not me, I am struggling to keep from another impulse purchase. There was a Mak-Cas recently that caused me all sorts of anguish.

I had to tie myself up for a while.

Cheers

[Barrykgerdes]

I expect it will go to Melbourne to ensure more clouds.

Barry

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Yeah I saw it, thought it would be a can of worms.

[Satchmo]

Its the kind of thing that I would expect the owner to actually give you a crate of beer to take out of their garage

[torana68 (Roger)]

Originally Posted by Satchmo

Its the kind of thing that I would expect the owner to actually give you a crate of beer to take out of their garage

, close to what I was thinking but a good set of mirrors the rest youd have to take and hope it usefull, one of those things you'd have to see. maybe im missing something?

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Sounds like a bargain. Hope its got good optics.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Satchmo

Its the kind of thing that I would expect the owner to actually give you a crate of beer to take out of their garage

Didn't you work for Astro-Optical about that time? I wondered whether you made the primary.

[OICURMT]

Ooooooo.. 2nd to last image... a Venable off axis guider... I bought one of those in 1978 for my RV-6.

[Satchmo]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Didn't you work for Astro-Optical about that time? I wondered whether you made the primary.

No I made 330 mirrors there in the period 1985 to 1988, then joined the CSIRO Optical Workshops at Division of Applied Physics for 10 years.

That tube assembly uses Royal componants like the spider with rod type vanes. I would suggest the tube goes back to the sixties when Amateur Astronomers Supply Co as it was called up to 1977 did not make their own spiders then and used Royal ( Japanese) focusers on their tubes . In the seventies they switched to Unitron focussers and then Vixen by the mid 80's.

The funny looking off axis guider thing dates to the mid to late seventies.

I would guess that the fork mounting was not the original mount for the tube and if it is genuinly F7 then the mirror probably is 1960's . Its a mish mash of components. As far as I know they never offered 10" F7 mirrors on the Hall mounts.

[Satchmo]

Originally Posted by torana68

, close to what I was thinking but a good set of mirrors the rest youd have to take and hope it usefull, one of those things you'd have to see. maybe im missing something?

I guess its got some kind of historical charm about it !

[torana68 (Roger)]

Originally Posted by Satchmo

I guess its got some kind of historical charm about it !

old is good! but i wonder about spending that much on a 'scope in pieces, no chance of testing the optics, brave move.. I wondered if they may have been on here and been able to fill me in on its history, or in a few months will i see a "where does this big shiney bit go " post from someone.