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[ATM] Berry out of date?



I've made the Berry 6" dob design.  I've also made a 6" based upon the 8" design given in "The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes (Hardcover)" - also by Berry.   The latter design uses a cardboard concrete form for the OTA.  I found the latter design much better.  It was way lighter: a joy to quickly pull out of the trunk and set up.  Plus it uses a lighter lower rocker box.   I made the second scope to give to my neice leaving me with the plywood OTA scope.  I hated to give it away and plan to retire the playwood scope after I build another of the new design.  My two cents :-)
 
		
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