I'm Jim, and I'm a Feckerholic.
Group: "Hi, Jim!"

So, Monday night, the guy who sold me the "mother of all Feckers" (per Caveman), a 1958 6" f/15 Fecker Celestar Maksutov, phoned me to say he was coming past my town on the way to an auction, and he had a 4" Fecker, and did I want to look at it??

So, yesterday afternoon, I found myself loading a 4" f/10 Fecker Newtonian into my trunk for a short ride home!
This one has a green speckleware paint job, which provides a nice contrast to the blue speckleware 6". (Doesn't match my sofa as nicely, though, I must admit!

It was stored for some time in an outdoor shed, and because it's an open-tube Newt, it harbored a bit of insect and arachnid life inside. All the paint is good, inside and out, but all the optical surfaces need a good cleaning, and likely recoating. The drive motor runs, and turns the worm and drive gear, but it doesn't turn the scope, so evidently the clutch material is shot (I'll need to pull the motor to get at it).
While it needs more cleanup than the 6" Mak, being a Newt, the work should be much more straightforward. I suspect that Lew won't be the only guy on this forum Feckering around with Mars come December!

So, why would a guy with a six-inch Fecker have any interest in a four-inch? Well, size isn't everything! Plus, a small Fecker is easier to handle!

FWIW, this one is serial number 185 (a bit of a puzzle to me, because I understood that the 4" Feckers were numbered in the 200's and 400's). It's evidently an early model, as the RA slow-motion is the cam-type that rotates the entire clock drive around the shaft, as opposed to the later slo-mo that works off the worm gear.
These two Feckers should keep me off the streets for a little while....
Clear skies,
Jim