This page last modified 2012 January 10
Amateur Telescope Making Suppliers (UK)
- AWR Technology
Telescope drive systems and other bespoke astro-electronics. - Beacon Hill Telescopes
Mirror-making materials and other useful bits and pieces. - Essex Tube Windings Ltd
Cardboard tubing (sonotube). - Custom Telescopes UK
Mirror sets and other telescope components. - First Light Optics
Lots of bits and pieces, from flocking paper to focusers, useful for the telescope maker. - Galvoptics
Mirror sets, glass blanks, grinding powders, aluminising. You may find their old site easier to navigate. - Maplin
Electronic components, enclosures, etc. - Ian Poyser
Optical components and tubing. - Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument
Precision mechanical components. - SRB-Griturn
Optical accessories and adaptors (can be made to order). - Vacuum Coatings Ltd
Mirror-making supplies and (re-)aluminising of mirrors up to 32" diameter.