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“The Machine”: Homemade Telescope Mirror Grinding And …
Making A Telescope By Hand (by Maurice Sapiro) … “The Machine”: Homemade Telescope Mirror Grinding And Polishing Machine (Plans And Additional Photos)
Mirror Making Machine – Welcome to the Fansler's
Bugger this for a Lark – A machine has got to be easier! I made my first telescope mirror, by hand in … could not afford the material to build a mirror grinding machine …
Panasonic Hdc-sd60 Telescope Mirror Grinding Machine
Panasonic HDC-SD60 Telescope mirror grinding machine, Grinding 10" pyrex blank for telescope mirror
Newport Glass Works, LTD. Grinding, Polishing and Figuring …
Grinding, Polishing and Figuring . Thin Telescope Mirrors . Abridged from an article appearing … are several ways to support the mirror on a grinding and polishing machine …
Mirror-O-Matic : This list is for discussion about the …
This list is for discussion about the "Mirror-o-Matic" telescope mirror grinding machine, as developed by Dennis Rech. Likely topics might be about construction and …
Mirror grinding machine construction log – JamesCrombie.com page1
Mirror grinding machine construction log I started thinking about building my own mirror grinding machine several years ago. Having been on the ATM list now since …
Mirror Grinding Machine, G. W. Ritchey | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
… grind a series of telescope mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telescope initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory. The grinding machine …
50 Inch telescope (1.3 meter telescope) at the Astronomical …
The 1.3m telescope mirror blank has been completed by Peter Wangsness and is now … 1.3m mirror blank – yard stick comparison . 1.3-m Mirror Grinding Machine – Photo: Mike …
Mirror-o-Matic mirror making machine – ATM pages of Berthold …
Telescope Optics : Complete Manual for Amateur Astronomers. How to Make a … offers extensive support for construction and operating that type of mirror grinding machine.
My Home Grown 32" F2.4 / F8 / F16 Primary Telescope
Grinding your Telescope Mirror: Telescope Cradles and Holders: Telescope Finders and … 32 inch Mirror on the Draper Grinding Machine: Grinding was done face up witih a smaller …
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Fine Grinding a 20" Quartz Telescope Mirror. Rough Grinding on the Fixed-Post Mirror Grinding Machine. Hogging the Curve on a 20" f/4.5 Quartz Telescope Mirror
Stellafane Links Page
(October 2002 Stellafane Mirror Class) Telescope Making Workshops and Seminars … Grinding Machines A Mirror-O-Matic Machine. Bob's Large Machine; Elgin Style Machine
Mirror-O-Matic – Dr. Debug
Grinding your own telescope mirror seemed like a cool idea until I did more … Build a machine to grind the mirror (AKA mirror-o-matic) Buy some glass. Mirror-O …
How I make Telescope Mirror Blanks – Michael Davis Publishing …
How I make Telescope Mirror Blanks … It only takes a few minutes on the grinding machine I built for the job.
SkyBadger – Mirror Grinding Machine
I have a Mirror-o-maticmirror making machine that I swapped with MikeMS for a Newtonian telescope that was no use to me. … Mirror-o-Matic mirror grinding machine Index …
Stellafane ATM:Mirror Making Myths
Telescope mirrors can be made in your kitchen … to get an accurate surface on a mirror – most machines … mirror making process involves grinding the mirror …
Large Thin Mirror Making – Mel Bartels, BBAstroDesigns homepage
Amateurs have made mirrors up to 41" by hand. A grinding machine … made large thin mirrors that are 1 5/8" to 2 1/8" thick. April 1996, Sky and Telescope magazine …
CNC telescope mirror grinder. – CNCzone.com-The Largest …
It has a 12 inch diameter mirror. While the telescope looks expensive because of its size … few by hand, not to say I know anything about machine grinding. Machines are …
Mirror-o-matic.com – Machines
Machines. Mirror-o-Matic 14 Mirror-o-Matic 20
Leviathan of Parsonstown – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parsons improved the techniques of casting, grinding and polishing large telescope mirrors from speculum metal, and constructed steam-powered grinding machines for …
Mirror grinding – Telescope making
telescope making, mirror grinding, homemade tripod, eyepieces, astronomy
Building a Waineo type grinding machine
… someday" list was a rebuild of a lens/mirror grinding machine … Hindle type, and build a Waineo style machine, named after the late Tom Waineo. (See also Sky and Telescope …
Telescope: Ritchey’s 60-inch Reflector
George W. Ritchey made his first reflecting telescope when he was a … Ritchey built a machine to grind and polish the glass mirror. The machine combined cast-iron grinding …
S*T*A*R Astronomy – Telescope Making Links
Grinding Your Telescope Mirror Polishing Your Telescope Mirror Stress Testing Glass … How I cut the Glass Mirror Blanks. Grinding Machines. Building a Waineo type grinding …
Machine For Grinding Telescope Specula – ChestofBooks.com …
Also available from Amazon: Amateur Work. Machine For Grinding Telescope Specula … Before describing brietly the machines used in grinding mirrors, it may be …
comments on mirror grinding machine – Activity Stream …
Looking for some input on a mirror grinding machine. Take a look at the pics and let me know what you like, don't like, whats missing and so on. The design is in it's
Telescope Making Links – Designs and Techniques | STAR Astronomy
Astronomy, telescope making ,mirror grinding and testing Large Thin Mirror Making by Mel Bartels Grinding Machines Mirror-o-matic Tom Waineo's Desktop Grinding/Polishing …
TELESCOPE MAKING – David Ratledge's Virtual Home
A telescope with a Schmidt … The primary mirror at f/3 required a lot of glass to be removed to reach the correct depth. Even with a grinding machine this is …
DATSCOPE – 16 inch F6 Dobsonian Telescope
New ultralight telescope designs Telescope mirror grinding machine Mirror making and … image above shows one of the 16inch mirrors on the new grinding/polishing machine.
Rotating furnace – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
… spin-cast paraboloid is not sufficiently accurate to permit its immediate use as a telescope mirror or lens, so it is corrected by computer-controlled grinding machines.