>Bill Arnett wrote:
>
>> On Monday, April 30, 2001, at 05:39 PM, Michael J. Cook wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone flocked the outside of the central baffle?
>>
>>I've not bothered with that but doing the INside of the baffle tube
>>gave me a huge improvement.
>>
>
>Judging from (lack of response) it seems that no one has bothered to
>flock the outside of the baffle tube. I think I'll try with and without
>flocking and see the difference.
>
>The inside of the baffle of my LX200 has those equally spaced baffle
>rings. This is a relatively newer addition to the design. When the
>LX200s first came out they did not have those rings. Do you have them?
>I wonder if folks without the rings flock whereas those with the rings
>do not?

Michael,

I had considered this when I recently flocked my Dynamax 8 SCT. I decided not
to flock the outside after I noticed that it would reduce my ability to slide
the mirror off one end of the baffle tube.

I also concluded that with the main tube flocking, a non-flocked exterior
baffle would not be a big deal.

I looked up my LX200 baffle from the eyepiece end, and it has the scoring you
mention. The shiniest part seemed to the be 4-5 inches toward the end. The
partial flock as suggested earlier may indeed be the way to go, or deal with a
little light loss using Bill's method.


Leroy Guatney
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