I'm considering buying a 20-ish year old homemade scope from a friend. Back in high school days he and I did a bit of ATMing. I made a 6" Newtonian with home ground mirror. He made this 10" F 5.4 with a Coulter mirror, fiberglass tube w/ trim rings, four vane sec. mount, 9 point mirror mount and 2" focuser. All decent components but the whole thing cost him around $300.00 at the time so none of it was really "high end". Assuming the optics are still clean after all these years what is a fair price to pay? OTA only, no finder/eyepieces etc. Thanks for any input...
Help determining a fair price for older 10" newt
Started by larrym, 03/12/2004 12:08AM
Posted 03/12/2004 12:08AM
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Posted 03/12/2004 03:05AM
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I'd agree with the $300 price. Up to $400 if the views were surprisingly good and you already have a mount for it.
Ken
Ken
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