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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 291109, member: 360&quot;]I can tell that the telescope is damn old (at least 100 years), but nothing else, until it&#039;s opened, and there&#039;s photos of all sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>The compass doesn&#039;t look like anything special. A modern fantastical reproduction. I&#039;ve seen a million of them at flea-markets. Artificially tarnished, to look antique. When you&#039;ve polished as much brass as I have - which is a bloody boatload of it - you learn very quickly how to distinguish aged tarnish from artificial tarnish.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - if you ARE going to open the telescope to take more photos of it - for the love of god, please do not FORCE IT.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s very common for these things to jam from decades of dust and grit trapped inside them. If that happens, spray it down with WD-40 or something FIRST, to try and ease it open and clean out some of the grime. Otherwise you could rip the thing in half by accident and break the threads.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do that, you could very well do irreparable damage to the telescope. So do it SLOWLY and use lubrication rather than brute force.</p><p><br /></p><p>...God that sounds like sexual advice, but there&#039;s really not many other ways to put it...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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