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Lew Chilton
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Reged: 10/20/05
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Re: Restoration of the earliest? Schaefer telescop
06/12/09 02:01 AM
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The focuser looks like an esthetically superior version of the Carle photo-visual helical focuser, as sold by Tom Cave. It can be seen in the 1970s Cave accessory catalog, as viewed at Robert Provin's Classic Telescope Catalog website: http://geogdata.csun.edu/~voltaire/classics/cave/caveacc.pdf
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