Show me your eyepiece/accessories case, please.

[OneEyedSam]

Surely the axiom IS the towbar on your car

[DRT]

Despite having stopped buying eyepieces three weeks ago my wife tells me "a package has arrived". I might have an update to post tomorrow

Edited March 26, 2015 by DRT

[OneEyedSam]

Despite having stopped buying eyepieces three weeks ago my wife tells me "a package has arrived". I might have an update to post tomorrow

You never stop

[JamesF]

You never stop

Is it one of those things like being an alcoholic?  (In that you never stop actually being an alcoholic, you just become an alcoholic who doesn't drink.)

James

[alan potts]

It just goes to show how this thread has grown, it only seems just over a year ago I photographed mine and I think they are back on page 57 or 8. The trouble is since i have bought more eyepieces and diagonals and would need a page to get all mine on onless i posted thumbnails.

Seems the more I have the worse the weather is getting, what happened to the cold crystal clear winter nights of a few years back with seeing to die for.

100, Geoff Boycott or what!

Alan

[badhex]

Okay, new 24mm Maxvision and a slight rearrange, plus on the right, the new 2" additions in a brand new case!

[John]

This thread has been going on long enough to have some retro revivals. Here is my post from 5 years ago:

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/57027-show-me-your-eye-piece-cases/?p=561737

I still have the same case and the Nagler 31. Everything else has moved on though

[bingevader]

Nice one John!

But in all fairness, 5 years has been quite a long time in the ep market.

[alan potts]

John,

How many oif them do you still have I see the 31mm Nagler and beyond that I am guessing. Pays to read the full post sorry, they say a week is a long time in politics but 5 years can be a complete change of reanges from TV, Most of the Radians have gone now.

Alan

[Floater]

... Seems the more I have the worse the weather is getting, what happened to the cold crystal clear winter nights ...

Ha! We have the culprit, folks!

[bingevader]

Maybe for his current run of bad weather in Bulgaria, but I'm not sure he can take the blame for the UK too!

[badhex]

Poor Alan, cursed with his own bad weather and the cause of ours

Out of interest does anyone else use the packets of silica gel in their cases, or in fact think it's something worth bothering with?

I wouldn't have gone out specially to buy one but I work in IT and a lot of kit we buy comes with - I figured it couldn't hurt popping one in my EP case.

[Dude_with_the_tube]

i have a couple in my EP box.Doesnt harm.

[John]

I have some silica gel sachets under the foam in each of my cases.

[waz1642]

I got my old camera case out of the loft this week

Where do you get new cut-foam form?

[alan potts]

I have loads of those gel packets they can't do any harm, I am told you nee to pop them in the oven to dry them out from time to time, I might try them to see if they will soak up this dam rain.

[Tinker1947]

I have loads of those gel packets they can't do any harm, I am told you nee to pop them in the oven to dry them out from time to time, I might try them to see if they will soak up this dam rain.

I did pop some in the oven, they came out stuck together, make sure the oven isn't to hot, there some that can go in a microwave not sure if there a special type though.....

[Roy Challen]

Poor Alan, cursed with his own bad weather and the cause of ours

Out of interest does anyone else use the packets of silica gel in their cases, or in fact think it's something worth bothering with?

I wouldn't have gone out specially to buy one but I work in IT and a lot of kit we buy comes with - I figured it couldn't hurt popping one in my EP case.

If you have them, use them. They won't dry stuff out, but they certainly help with residual moisture. They come in all sorts of products these days from electronics to dried food. I'm surprised astro gear doesn't come supplied with them, Or does it? Haven't bought anything 'new' for quite a while!

[paul mc c]

My box of we ones....almost full.

[John]

Those Celestron "Halloween" plossls seem to be gaining in popularity again

[paul mc c]

I just got them,i had a few before and thought they were very good and when they came up i had to have then.

[Stu]

My box of we ones....almost full.IMG_2598.JPGIMG_2599.JPG

Nice case Paul. At first glance I thought you had done my normal trick which is to cut part of myself off and bleed all over my handiwork [emoji6][emoji12]

[paul mc c]

Yea i forgot to clean that...

[alan potts]

Paul,

Would you care to tell us about the lipstick on the top of the box?  :grin:  Nice set there though.

[paul mc c]

Paul,

Would you care to tell us about the lipstick on the top of the box?  :grin:  Nice set there though.

Thats another story....