Yes, I have an original RV-6 finder bracket for the 35mm finder. Once I sell the bracket, I won't need the finder anymore, either. Since I have a 50mm bracket...
Roy, Responding to one of your questions, the 1967 vintage 6 X30 finder I just star tested has a true field close to 4.2 degrees. This is narrow by today's...
jrusho
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Jan 3, 2007 3:24 am
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Friends, I just won the auction on *bay for an RV-6 Deluxe OTA (with the gray tube and end rings). It looks to be in great shape. Can someone share which...
Steve House
kshouse1@...
Jan 3, 2007 4:00 am
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I believe the Deluxe 6" had the 8x50 finder. One of our local telescope shops has one of those finders with the brackets (if I remember correctly). Let me...
I think "RV-6 Deluxe" may be something of a misnomer. Criterion essentially made three different models of 6" reflectors. There was the 6" Standard Custom...
Steve, Congratulations! My understanding is that all Deluxe models came with the 8 X 50 finder and the flanged cast iron base with the "field" tripod inside....
jrusho
jrusho@...
Jan 3, 2007 5:46 pm
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The RV6 did have rotating rings on it, that is, rings that could be loosened and the tube then rotated in them. That was one of the better features of the...
I'm looking to sell my RV-6 dynascope - Are you in the Philly area - asking $600.00...
Robert Eckstein
rneckstein@...
Jan 3, 2007 6:12 pm
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This may be as Rik describes- an RV-6 originally supplied with the grey-green tube and endrings. This one currently has the 6X30 white finder. I suppose with...
Steve House
kshouse1@...
Jan 3, 2007 11:33 pm
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Interesting. I wonder if the "grey tube" situation can date these. I got mine in spring 1965. The end rings (on the tube) alone would show this to NOT be an...
I have a M RV6 that I am rebuilding but I have a couple of questions. 1) I want to texture it but I dont know if I need to do the whole thing or just the first...
A picture of a 6" Custom Deluxe sans the cast-iron pedestal and in somewhat dilapidated shape appears here: <http://www.sudekumplanetarium.com/domesale/images/...
Rob, The pics on your link show a different style focuser for the deluxe than the one on my new grey/green tube with endrings OTA. I'm believing that my new...
Steve House
kshouse1@...
Jan 4, 2007 4:03 am
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Steve: You are correct; the focusers are different. On the Custom Dynascopes the focuser base is longer and has a brass nut which holds the circular secondary...
Jamie, I think you need to texture the whole tube (I used a ceiling texture spray in a can). Plenty of light can still hit the tube quite a ways down and...
Hi Rob et. al., I haven't received the OTA so I don't yet know the length of the grey/green tube. There is, in the ebay photo, the number "50" on the back of...
Steve House
kshouse1@...
Jan 4, 2007 11:40 pm
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... ways ... tripod ... included ... but ... questions. ... thing ... secondary ... Dave thank you for your insite. When you sent you mirrors in which grade...
Yesterday I went to our local telescope shop. This place has over 200 'scopes on the floor and at least half of the equipment, eyepieces, binoculars,...
200+ scopes on the floor? Wish there was someplace like that around here! Sure, I would like to see the OC 6" photos - I restored a 10" OC a few years ago &...
jrusho
jrusho@...
Jan 7, 2007 12:54 am
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Jamie, Before you flock one inch of that tube, allow me to quote Roland Christen. He is an optical designer and manufacturer of premier optical tube ... So,...
Rik Be careful with that Galoc comparison. I had read the same thing somewhere and repeated it to an astronomy equipment dealer. I was almost laughed out of...
Greetings dynascope group. I can best relate today's experience by simply copying an email I sent to Rik Hill: Hi Rik, Thanks for checking on this finder. I...
Steve House
kshouse1@...
Jan 9, 2007 3:07 am
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... somewhere and repeated it to an astronomy equipment dealer. I was almost laughed out of the store. I was told, emphatically, that even though they look...
Steve, That's why I am leery of ebay - too many chances for things to go bad. One of my other hobbies is model cars, which are easier to box, but damage prone...
jrusho
jrusho@...
Jan 9, 2007 10:49 pm
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Jim, Great info on those 16.3's. I have no Criterion orthos now, but the 4 & 6 I had with my first RV-6 (1967) were inferior to the 7mm AR in image quality. I...
jrusho
jrusho@...
Jan 9, 2007 11:12 pm
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That same store is where I went to look for the 8x50 finder for Steve House. You all know his lamentable story on his OTA. As a result Steve has given me...
Jim Not long winded at all and it has a lot of good information. Thank you for taking the time to write it. Thank you for also posting your photo. I had read...
Hi Steve, There was never such a creature as a "Deluxe" RV-6. The Deluxe units were a different line. The "RV" stood for "Real Value"...nothing deluxe about...
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