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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 423574, member: 360&quot;]The telescope is made entirely of brass, inside and out. The difference in colour is because of the lacquering. Brass was lacquered in an attempt to stop it tarnishing and corroding (and so that you didn&#039;t have to polish it so often to keep it clean). </p><p><br /></p><p>The difference in colour is, as 2MB says, because in some areas, the lacquer has worn off and the brass underneath has tarnished, whereas other areas the lacquer has survived and the brass remains bright. </p><p><br /></p><p>To get uniformity, you&#039;d have to strip off all the lacquer, polish all the brass and then relacquer. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m too lazy to do that. I don&#039;t intend to do anything else to this telescope. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve pulled it apart, wiped down the lenses and blown out the dust, I&#039;ve fixed a wonky draw-tube coupler and given the whole thing a general once-over, but I don&#039;t really intend to do anything else with it. I think it looks great as it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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