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[PierreDesvaux]

From now on, you can build yourself your own large 24" telescope, even if you never made any wood working!

 

The DOBSON FACTORY provides an extensive kit, with all wooden cnc precut pieces, all bolts and nuts and all necessary parts in order to built your large scope, together with a 42 pages instruction manual.

 

Including a Starlight Instrument focuser and 8 carbone tubes (35 mm). 

 

 

Obviously  we also provide this instrument full completed, ready to use.

 

 

The Dobson Factory is a French telescope maker, with more than 150 telescopes built during the last 10 years; for clients all over the word. We ship worlwide.

 

Web site:

http://the-dobson-factory.com

 

email: dobson.2005@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by PierreDesvaux, 30 October 2021 - 09:19 AM.

[PierreDesvaux]

The details of the kit for the 24" dobsonian telescope:

 

This includes:

 

- All precut plywood pieces,

- All stainless screws, bolts and nuts,

- The components for the spider,

- The components for the mirror cell,

- FRP bands,

- 8 carbone tubes, 35 mm,

- A Feathertouch focuser,

- The detailled construction manual.

 

The Dobson Factory, France

 

http://the-dobson-factory.fr

Blog: http://dobsonfactory.blogspot.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagra...edobsonfactory/

Mail: dobson.2005@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PierreDesvaux]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[slavicek]

Nice kit. Still, probably not for beginner.

[PierreDesvaux]

Thanks.

 

Frankly, this kit has been thought for beginners, and it can be  made by beginners... 

 

What you need is to be able to put some glue on a piece of wood, tighten clamps, use a screw driver or tighten some bolts and nuts.  All the wooden pieces are cut in order to be easily assembled.  And the construction manual helps for all the details.

 

(But obviously, if you never used a screw driver, or never thigthened a bolt and nut, this might not be the best occasion to begin...).

 

You will not have to cut anything, or made holes. They are already predrilled.

 

Therefore, there will be no dust, except at the end, for some sanding.

 

 

Such similar kit is available for scopes from 12" up to 24" with the same philosophy.  Many have already been made, and the construction manual is constantly improved,, taking into account the comments of the first builders.

[PierreDesvaux]

How to built the 24" scope:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[DJO]

No idea what their prices were four years ago but now they are in Obsession $$$ territory.  I'll buy a ready made scope for those dollars.

[TayM57]

No idea what their prices were four years ago but now they are in Obsession $$$ territory.  I'll buy a ready made scope for those dollars.

They're out of business. The website domain is for sale.

[Random2310]

I believe their website is now located here: https://sites.google...factory/accueil

 

Newest blogpost is from February 2025, I think they are still around.