[Chaos-l] Have vintage telescope will rehab

[Michael Hrivnak]

For those of us who couldn't make it, what was decided as the fate for the 
rescued telescopes?  What needs to be done, and how can we help?

Michael

On Saturday 07 July 2007 8:13:13 am walter fowler wrote:
> What a great meeting we had at Jayme Hanzak's last night.  12 telescope
> builders, tweekers and techno-gizmo wannabes showed up wanting to be part
> of this major restoration project.  Hillsborough amateur astronomer Alex
> Armstrong was a hit, telling us that he (and many other) young teenagers
> lusted after the "Criterion-style" 8 inch reflectors in the '60's but
> couldn't afford one.  Now he was looking at 5 of them.  He told us that all
> 5 had to be restored and that he would help us.  Let's get started!  The
> evening being dark and fairly clear, we drug out one of the 8 inchers as
> well as several other scopes that just happened to be in people's trunks to
> peruse/pursue the wonders of the Cedar Grove sky.  All agreed that Jayme
> had a nice backyard and a nice observatory.  We also agreed that Jayme
> should have more meetings at his house.  More about that later.  Thanks for
> coming, everybody.  Walter