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The mirror box is extremely strong - 5/8" ApplePly™, corner-braced and bolted to huge custom designed cast aluminum side bearings. On top, a functional Baltic Birch plywood light baffle minimizes reflections. The bottom has our unique steel mirror cell frame. The sides use our special altitude bearings that allow all the truss poles to be mounted on the outside of the mirror box where they belong to keep the box as small as possible. This is one of the main reasons Obsessions are more compact and user friendly than other 'scopes of the same aperture.
Outstanding guide for constructing a Dobsonian Telescope. If you've ever considered making your own large telescope, this book is the definitive tome. It discusses the practical considerations for building a large amateur telescope with materials mostly available at hardware stores. More important than construction details, the design criteria and simple theory are discussed in detail, so that the builder can intelligently modify the design and innovate new variations on this design.