Bintel Melbourne Visit.

[Dave47tuc (David)]

Hi All,
Today Julian and I went to Bintel in Melbourne. It was a trip for us, over 1 hour to get there. Julian was going to pick up his new 7 & 11 Nagler and O111 filter.
I thought it a chance to see Roger Davis whom I have not seen for over two years.
Also to get my Maksutov corrector cleaned.

The trip in was no problems traffic was normal for a Saturday, to my surprise was the ease on finding Bintel. I’m not a big fan on heading to Melbourne metropolis but Bintel was just up the road from the main Hwy from the Peninsula.

So with all that it was great to see Roger again also to catch up with Graham Hardy.
They where both most welcoming to us. Roger was very helpful in cleaning my corrector plate. Thanks Roger.

Well Julian and I just browsed for over 3 hours. Roger showing us plenty of Ep’s
Geez that 41 Pano is big but what about the 30 mm Meade UWA. Cripes what a thing!!

The usual scopes to look at Meade stuff with Orion scopes etc. Nothing that I thought I would swap for my Maksutov.

Roger & Graham both made time to show us a PST Solar scope. Julain had never seen through one. I had at Snake Valley last camp.
I think I know what Julian will buy next.

So it was a nice way to kill some time on a Saturday and anyone looking for a scope or Eyepiece or anything like that, I would recommend they visit Roger or Graham at Bintel.

Thanks guy’s for your time.

[AGarvin]

Myself and a friend paid a first visit to Bintel Melbourne a few weeks ago. Very nicely laid out shop with excellent service. We browsed for close to an hour. I had never met Roger (or Graham) but he was incredibly helpful, spending a good deal of time chatting with us. Somehow we got onto the subject of binos and we spent more time looking through a good number of pairs they had in stock.

Very impressed with the service.