12-07-2011, 11:03 AM
Welcome to the forum Les, and many thanks for a very helpful and interesting posting.
I think it's evident that some of us have high spec scopes that have features that far exceed both our requirments and capabilties, but it's a fact that scopes have come down in price, so ownership, and the pleasure of ownership, become an irresistable temptation. Heaven forbid if some of these aging scopes should develop faults, b we'll worry about thatwenthe time comes!
I have two scopes - a PW Purbeck I built in 1978, (not a cheap project) which still gives a good account of itself, and an aging dual beam Gould 300, which was thrown into a skip in 1991 by the Communications Dept of the firm I then worked for - not because it was defective, but for no other reason than that it was 'time expired'. As an inveterate 'skip diver' I was in there like a rat up a drain to retrieve it.
All good clean fun!
David
I think it's evident that some of us have high spec scopes that have features that far exceed both our requirments and capabilties, but it's a fact that scopes have come down in price, so ownership, and the pleasure of ownership, become an irresistable temptation. Heaven forbid if some of these aging scopes should develop faults, b we'll worry about thatwenthe time comes!
I have two scopes - a PW Purbeck I built in 1978, (not a cheap project) which still gives a good account of itself, and an aging dual beam Gould 300, which was thrown into a skip in 1991 by the Communications Dept of the firm I then worked for - not because it was defective, but for no other reason than that it was 'time expired'. As an inveterate 'skip diver' I was in there like a rat up a drain to retrieve it.
All good clean fun!
David
