Re: [APML] small AP mount (was: M42 at 300mm on new EQ6 mount)

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

>Scott's main business is providing custom equipment for the Hollywood film 
>industry. Making mounts is a sideline.

-snip-
         There is a lot of equipment made for amateur stronomy that is  a 
"sideline".    Spiders are not the primary product of ProtoStar, although 
argueably thiers are the best available to ATMs.  Sirius Optics, the people 
who make all these new filters,  are a commmercial/Industrial coating 
company that happens to have an avid amateur astronomer as one of the three 
parteners.  Even in our case, the custom made mirror cells we sell and make 
are a sideline for  Dave (the guy who makes them), most of his living money 
comes from custom maching jobs for  heavy industry.
         I think if you looked around, you could probally find even more 
examples.
joe






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