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bendable plywood and Dobsonian telescope tube

3/8 inch bendable plywood bends cross grain and can it can be bent into an eight inch circle with juat hand pressure. Glued to a cardboard tube it adds strength and thichnes and glued inside a cardboatd tube it can add slip joints. There seems to be no mention of bendable plywood in Dobsonian telescope building and I hope the telescope builders will buy some and try it out. There is a picture of the bottom sections of my teloescope in the Dobson telescope section. The picture shows the two sections fitting together and you can see a bit of the bending plywood slip joint. I have had a great time with my tel;escope and want to let other bulders know about bendable plywood. I have tried to advertize bendable plywood with out help from other editors and became a frustrated inventor or inovator until I found Wikipedia. So if you try bendable plywood and think it can solve some bukilding probloems thank Wikipedia. (````)