Chuck

Me too.

Jim

 David Dunn <david.dunn@albertsons.com> wrote:

Chuck,

I would still be willing to pay more to make my own eyepiece. I would like
to have the experience. I think that even $50 would be worth the experience
of building the eyepiece.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:07 AM
To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Eyepiece seminar


I spent several hours over the weekend looking for
lenses for the seminar eyepiece kits, and was
disappointed in the selection I found.

There are far fewer appropriate lenses in the surplus
market today, than there were 3 years ago when I was
heavily involved in eyepiece making.

I did find some lenses good for symmetricals &
Plossls, as well as a couple of triplets that might
work for orthos, however prices have risen in the last
few years. If it looks like lens prices alone will
exceed fifteen dollars, I'm less inclined to make the
effort. I would have to sell all of these kits to
make it worthwhile, and once you get around $20-$25,
there isn't much motivation to make your own eyepiece
other than curiosity.

Bill Kelley has contacted me regarding some nice
little achromats that will work, if we can get enough
of them. (Thanks, Bill!)

My own parts bins have only enough lenses for perhaps
four or five eyepieces right now.

Stay tuned.

C.

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