Started with a 60mm Refractor?

I started out by constructing small refractors using any available lenses and
cardboard tube I could get my hands on. No pair of eyeglesses was safe while I
was in primary school. Mostly they were awful performers. Then followed a love
affair with binoculars that continues to the present.
After college I purchased an inexpensive altaz refractor advertised in
S&T. The achromat lens was not fully polished out and the eyepiece lenses were
mounted in rubber but it worked. Using averted vision I was able to see M57
from a dark site. What a thrill. I still have it but have not used it for
decades.
Being an inveterate do it yourselfer, my next project was to scratch build
a 8" newtonian. I learned much grinding the pyrex mirror and building the
fiberglass tube. This is a great hobby!
Bill Bambrick
41 N, 73 W, 95 ASL