Image of the day Captured by Douglas Rollain LBN 576 - The Garlic Nebula About Astromart Terms of Service Privacy Policy Help & FAQ Astronomy Links User Profiles Top Users List Sponsors Supporters RSS Feeds My Account Log In New to Astromart? Register an account... Need Help? [email protected] Home Forums ASTRONOMY EQUIPMENT Equipment Talk building a refractor building a refractor Started by Midnight Sun, 09/12/2011 05:13PM Post Reply Posted 09/12/2011 05:13PM Opening Post John Meiners View public profile Send a private message to John Meiners Find more posts by John Meiners Find threads started by John Meiners Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Astoria OR, US Posts: 494 Could someone tell me where can find tubing for a 6" refractor. Aluminum, carbon fiber, maybe cardboard? thank you, JM Quote Posted 09/12/2011 05:55PM #1 Floyd Blue View public profile Send a private message to Floyd Blue Find more posts by Floyd Blue Find threads started by Floyd Blue Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bakersfield CA, US Posts: 4913 Carbon fiber is available if you do a search for them. There are several suppliers so I will not post the links. They are expensive though.Aluminum is also available http://www.parallaxinstruments.com/tube.htm plus other suppliers. Quote [SIZE="Large"][/SIZE][COLOR="Blue"][/COLOR] Floyd Blue Amateur Imager Posted 09/16/2011 05:29PM #2 Alan French View public profile Send a private message to Alan French Find more posts by Alan French Find threads started by Alan French Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Scotia NY, US Posts: 661 There's also Hastings...http://hastingsirrigation.com/node/19Clear skies, Alan Quote Post Reply Funding Member Sponsors BBLABS LLC astronomy-shoppe Anacortes Telescope OMI OPTICS USA LLC APM-Telescopes Matsumoto Company BW RemoteSkies.net ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY BY MARTIN PUGH SellTelescopes.com kwtelescope FocusKnobs Desert Sky Astro Products Astromart Customer Service AstroMart LLC View all sponsors Search News Classifieds Auctions Reviews & Articles Members Reviews & Articles Forums Calendar Events Go