Went to the flea market today and walked away with 3 scopes. First was an old J.C. Penny 60mm F700 refactor with tripod, az. mount and a .965 H6mm e\p. Next was a Meade 60mm TeleStar on an az. mount. As I was walking out to the car, one of the sellers spotted me carrying the scopes and tripods and gave me a Tasco 50mm F600 in the orignail box with a table top az. tripod and a .965 sun filter (I know, don't use it!!). Total cost for all three scopes was $7.00! Not sure what I'm goint to do with them. The Tasco and J.C. Penny have a circle T on them. Towa? The optics on all 3 are clean and scratch free. The Tasco looks like it's not been used. Now I need to find a .965 to 1.25 diagonal so I can check them out under the sky
Flea Market Finds
Started by rhinson11, 06/11/2005 08:52PM
Posted 06/11/2005 08:52PM
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Posted 06/12/2005 04:57AM
| Edited 06/12/2005 06:35AM
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I have an old Japanese scope in the attic with the Circle T on it. I believe this is a logo for a Japanese company that OEMed a lot of 60mm refractors in decades past. The company was called Tansutzu. I do not know what became of them. I believe they also OEMed the University Optics orthos in years past.
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