Re: What telescope vendors and companies will close in 2009?

On Jan 23, 12:12 pm, Too_Many_Tools <too_many_to...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The wait on your lists is legendary. ;<)

Care to give the average wait time for a customer?

Not sure what that has to do with anything, but here goes: for the
products we make now, the average wait time is anywhere from zero to
about 1 year. The average delivery time from accepting an order to
delivery of the order is about 2 months, but that can vary a bit plus
or minus depending on the season. That's for mountings and accessories
which is our main product. We have expanded our operation over the
last couple of years and are working to capacity. Probably need to
expand some more. Our optical production is basically myself, so that
will always be limited, but again, the average time from accepting of
the order to delivery is also about 2 - 3 months.

For scopes the wait time to accepting an order is very long, and for
those scopes that are discontinued, the wait will be forever. I do not
need to make scopes, since there is now a plethora of refractors
available in all shapes, sizes and correction levels. I make scopes
because I still enjoy working with optics, and I think I can still
contribute to the leading edge (but maybe I am kidding myself here).

When I first started making triplet refractors, there were only a very
few available at exorbitant cost. It was my intention to help to re-
introduce the refractor to the amateur public as a viable instrument,
at a time when Newts and SCTs ruled supreme. I felt that there was a
need for this, and now that so many other companies have stepped up
and are producing them in quantities (which I can never hope to
achieve with my hand-made processes), I feel I have done my job. And I
don't need to apologize to anyone for wait lists, and that includes
yourself. We do not take orders from anyone for any product that we
cannot deliver fairly quickly, and never will.

Rolando

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