Another angle of the polar housing. Interestingly Cave telescopes from this time do not have bearings in their mountings!!

Al Paslow Astronomy Collection

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An unusual original Cave 10 inch f 7.2 Newtonian Telescope. E-mail me at alpaslow@yahoo.com

This instrument still has original mirror coatings dated Aug 10, 1958 !

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Al-Paslow > Another angle of the polar housing. Interestingly Cave telescopes from this time do not have bearings in their mountings!!

Al-Paslow > side view Polar housing. Note the big locking knob for the polar shaft. (Mount still dusty ! )

Al-Paslow > Another view of the cradle assembly and the dec circle.

Al-Paslow > Polar axis with brass RA circle. Note the spacer or bearing.

Al-Paslow > Here's is something you don't see too often - an original red Cave "bakelite" spacer - possibly bearing surface. This spacer is nice and original and keeps the circle "comfortably fit" between the polar axis housing and the Dec. housing. The material feels like the stuff they made old plastic radios from in the 50's & 60's. I'm sure many of these spacers are broken and have cracked off with age. Well, here's an original one !!

Al-Paslow > After removing the bakelite spacer I removed the brass hour circle.

....More pictures to follow !!! See page 2. (Click on page two to your left.)

Al-Paslow > Original Cave brass setting circle is 6 inches accross.

Al-Paslow > Another view of the hour circle.

Al-Paslow > The polar shaft reads a 1.5 inch diameter. (The image shows a somewhat less but that is only due to camera position.)

Another angle of the polar housing. Interestingly Cave telescopes from this time do not have bearings in their mountings!!

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