Now this is a garage set up for making telescopes!!

[Tycho Brahe]

Wow,

[blinky]

Impressive - I dont even know what a turbo molecular pump does but the turbo bit looked cool!

[Psychobilly]

Impressive - I dont even know what a turbo molecular pump does but the turbo bit looked cool!

Often part of a multi stage vacuum pump system found in coating machines etc...

[arad85]

Impressive, but couldn't you just buy a huuge Obsession and a complete set of Ethoi for what he must have paid to put all that together

[Wobbly Bob]

OMG Where do they park the car

[FraserClarke]

Impressive, but couldn't you just buy a huuge Obsession and a complete set of Ethoi for what he must have paid to put all that together

Yeah -- if all you want to do is some observing -- but some people are amateur telescope makers first, and amateur astronomers second...

[arad85]

Yeah -- if all you want to do is some observing -- but some people are amateur telescope makers first, and amateur astronomers second...

I know I was just trying to... doh.. if you have to explain it

[FraserClarke]

Don't worry -- I got what you were saying -- spent 10 minutes trying to find an appropriate smiley; and then gave up! should probably have just 'winkyed'

[Solar B]

All mirror making so not real telescopes then

Still it was good to see inside obsessions factory

[step_hen]

OMG Where do they park the car

Car, in the garage? When we moved into our current house my wife parked the car in the garage on the first night. I said 'Thats what the driveway is for' and it hasnt been back in my 'telescope storage space' since!

[gary1968]

We have a Turbo Molecular pump at work in a high vac chamber, use for leak testing the heat exchangers we build for our air conditioning units, I wonder if they would miss it?

As for the garage, its a summer storage place for scopes n stuff, a work shop and a place where my bike lives. Garages are NOT for cars, or kids stuff or wives stuff. Garages are 'man' space,....... :-)

Gary