"Starboard" wrote in message
ups.com...
Testy... (I swear, no pun intended)

Well, your choice word was "refurbished". According to my dictionary,
in short means "to clean, brighten, or renovate." Since you changed the
mirror, you didn't clean or brighten. You must have renovated. Now,
"renovate", according to same, means to restore by repair or..... Never
mind....

As for assuming "Jan" was a girls name, I apologize and stand
corrected... Please don't linger on it too long...

Errol
NOLA


I did use the term refurbish. And some of that was what I did... I
replaced, or upgraded, if you will, some of the lesser parts (focuser -
TWICE, spider and secondary holder, primary cell - but ended up moving
back to the original, and added a 9X60 finder in place of the original),
and then replaced some of the replacements, when even BETTER parts became
available (there have been many opportunities for this; this scope is 25
years old).

I bought the Orion mirror because I was hearing good things about their
mirrors, and it IS a good mirror, but not better than the original. And a
very good mirror was not in keeping with my objectives in upgrading &
customizing this scope. A top level mirror and an exceptional secondary
that would not degrade the image from the primary was what I was looking
for, and what I now have... And eyepieces that complement the rest.

It's a disease that strikes folks in this hobby... Some worse than
others. It's related to aperture fever, but somewhat different, too...
I've also been guilty of aperture fever, and have the scopes (and have had
even more) to prove it... The scope in question is my second smallest.

All these things come with due time in the hobby... And after enough
time, when your body simply can't deal with the size and weight anymore,
sanity returns, though slowly, and you again begin to be a little bit (a
LITTLE bit) more practical... And the quest for the best optics begins to
dim a little eventually, as your vision begins to deteriorate with age.
I'm just beginning to reach that threshold now...

Perhaps in your case, you are being more practical on the FRONT end... If
so, and you never get the FEVER, congratulations!

--
Jan Owen

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