Andrew Findlay used his expertise to dismantle the projector at the McLaughlin Planetarium.
When the McLaughlin Planetarium was closed about four years ago, it marked the end of Toronto's classic star-gazing venue. It seemed as though the 27-year-old gargantuan projector - the main player in the planetarium's operation - would die a death that only a robotic instrument can. It sat, seemingly ignored, waiting for the day that it would be dismantled lens by lens, mechanical-optical piece by mechanical-optical piece, and sent to some obscure storeroom.
That is, until Dean Robert Prince of York's Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, came to the rescue and purchased the projector for a token $1.
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