Public use telescopes/bins (1 Viewer)

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breffni

Well-known member

• Sep 8, 2008

• #1

Folks,

I am looking for a suitably robust indestructable high quality telescope for public use (not coin operated) - does anybody have any experience of these things? And can anybody recommend a good vendor/product line? The usual vendors don't seem to do them at all...

(for a good cause)

Thanks

 

Wayland

Well-known member

• Sep 10, 2008

• #2

Try contacting the Military or Army/Navy surplus, they might have an ex-battleship viewing scope/bins. Their is one inside one of the hides at Slimbridge. I believe it came of an old WW2 battleship and it is a heafty bit of kit and the optics are suprisingly good.
Worth a try.

 

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TonyaH

New member

• Oct 28, 2011

• #3

I have one for sale

 

acs

Registered User

• Oct 28, 2011

• #4

Doesn't appear to be widely available, but Nikon do 20x120 bins on a shelf or floor stand: http://nikon.com/products/sportoptics/lineup/largebino/x120/index.htm

Never seen one so can't comment on robustness, and probably not cheap but I guess any of the major dealers could find more details or order one.