[LVAS] 100 mm Table Top Reflector

[Elena De La Pena]

Roger, the telescope turned out to be a Meade 60mm. The tripod looked okay
except for some nuts and screws missing from two sides of the accessory
table. The refractor's finder scope was missing the back eyepiece. I also
checked colimation which, of course, was the pits but all the screws were
still in place on the finder scope. It also still had the diagonal. I
propped the scope on a shelf and looked through it towards the corner gas
station to check out the mirror which seemed to be okay. It felt like a
cheap plastic department store scope and I was totally discouraged from
buying it. The store had a $20 price tag on the tripod and a $20 tag for the
telescope. Checked online and Walmart has the Meade 60mm for $55. LOL
Including the tripod. So whoever priced the scope and tripod at the Good
Will store (not Salvation Army after all) did not have a good idea of its
worth. I thought about offering $10 for the two items but decided I'd check
online first. I might have been paying too much. LOL  And sure enough!  But
it was fun checking it out. I think I'll keep checking the nearby thrift
stores, JIC. ***Elena

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:25 PM, roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Elena,
>
> I am forever checking the windows in Thrift Stores, looking for scopes. I
> was talking with Don Olive a few minutes ago. He told me that a while back
> one of his fellow professors at GWU found an orange tube Celestron C-8 at
> the local thrift store. It was the OTA with the wedge assembly, motor worked
> great, as well as the slow motion controls. It was lacking an EP and the
> tripod. Don gave him an EP or two and I think that he bought a tripod. Get
> this...he bought it for $18 dollars.
>
> Back to your 100 mm in the window. I like to use small scopes.
>
> Most of the time I take my standard X eyepiece out of my finder, drop in a
> 20 mm UO Erfle and it makes a great 50 mm wide field refractor, with a 90
> degree correct image diagonal. This finder is on my 10-inch. Sometimes it is
> surprising what can be seen. M-81 and M-82 are almost in the center of it. I
> am also pleased with the quality of the star images.
>
>
> Roger
>
>
>
> *    The moon and stars to govern the night.....   Psalm 136:9*
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:55:05 -0800
> From: elenadlp at gmail.com
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Subject: Re: [LVAS] 100 mm Table Top Reflector
>
>
> There was an Orion 100 mm on a tripod in the window of the nearby Salvation
> Army Thrift Store. I think I'm going to go in there and check it out.
> **Elena
>
>
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