Mar 06, 2006 0183 32 Gordon will know more about the math for different mirrors and different siz I recall for mine it was about a 70 tool diameter The bucket Gordon used to make the tile tool was 8 15/16 , 70 of 125 ends up at 8 3/4 Looking back at my notes I used the ,...
Thin Telescope Mirrors Abridged from an article appearing in Telescope Making 12 Provided Courtesy of Astronomy Magazine Article s Author Bob Kestner Part I - Grinding For many years, amateur astronomers and telescope makers thought it essential that glass for telescope primary mirrors be at least one-sixth as thick as its diameter...
Sep 26, 2006 0183 32 The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process Instead of ,...
Dec 19, 2018 0183 32 With the availability of Home 3D printers and CNC machines its become easier to create custom parts and save hundreds of dollars by making the pieces yourself Here is a repository of Telescope accessory 3D print designs I have found and consolidated The links will take you to the download page for...
Silicon carbide SiC is the most advantageous as the material of various telescope mirrors, because SiC has high stiffness, high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion and low density and so on 1 2 However, since SiC is very hard, it is difficult to obtain the surfaces efficiently by using ordinary grinding method Therefore, we developed the ultra lightweight mirror by ELID ....
Diamond generator for hogging out mirrors - the blue is the angled cutter Primary Mirror 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 laborious to say the least To get over this problem Brian built a diamond generator This can hog out deep mirrors in half an ....
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The telescope mirror was purchased from Jeff Baldwin The Project 40 team finished rough grinding, fine grinding, polishing and figuring the hand-built polishing machine Optical testing used a large zone mask for initial figuring and two years of interferometric measurements and figuring to ,...
3 A homemade telescope mirror can be made with more accuracy and smoothness than the mass-produced, commercial mirrors available today Unfortunately, the cost of mirror grinding kits and pyrex blanks has increased significantly in recent years to the point where any savings from making a mirror versus buying one are minimal at best...
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Aug 19, 2019 0183 32 Re Building a fixed post mirror grinding machine I I had a nice piece of 3/4 stainless dowel that was begging to be used So I bought a cheap pillow block to provide the locator for the metal dowel, and then drilled the overarm to fit These pillow blocks are 8 and come complete with a locking collar - great deal...
It allows the user to sit in one place and move the mount, instead of having to change position We do not photocopy these Made from pipe parts and other commonly available hardware Plans from a ,...
Jul 08, 2013 0183 32 Homemade 10inch Mirror Grinding MachineSorry for blurred image....
A good starter size is the 150 mm 6 mirror A 200mm 8 will also work Most ATM books and websites recommend a Pyrex® mirror blank, but in my opinion, annealed plate glass is better for this first, learn and practice mirrorIt is cheaper, it is softer and grinds faster, needing less abrasives and with these small sizes, the low expansion glass like Pyrex has no practical visible at ....
As astronomy projects look deeper into space, polishing the optics becomes more and more critical This past summer, there was a go-ahead to go big The European Southern Observatory member states declared support for the billion-plus-euro 13 billion or more European Extremely Large TelescopeThe project will put a 393-m-diameter main mirror atop a mountain in Chile for visible and near ....
Questions answered Yes, a 25 inch 064cm F26 that is half-inch 13mm thick can be made by an amateur telescope maker The greatest challenge by far is the extreme amount of parabolization required Astigmatism and good mirror cell support are solvable issu...
12 Inch Mirror Blanks, 3/4 Thick 69 S H 16 Shipping prices are to the USA - not shipping outside the US, sorry Combined shipping is possible - Write For a complete mirror making KIT, with all abrasives, polishing compounds, pitch, and grinding tool included, please see our Buy Telescope Mirror Kits website for great prices on plate ....
Grinding,Polishing and Figuring Large Thin Mirrors - Part 2 - Polishing 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 Machine Ken Lilja s Grinding Machine Grinding Machine Figuring Figuring a Paraboidal mirror by thermal ....
Grinding telescope reflectors of 15-inch diameter and over makes it necessary to employ a motor-driven turntable Small mirrors are generally ground and polished by rotating the tool, fastened to the turntable, and working the mirror blank by hand either in straight or in circular strokes over the tool In this case the overhang of the mirror ....
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Mar 07, 2010 0183 32 This video shows how to setup a mirror grinding machine for fixed-post grinding, also known as spin grinding or spinning After setup, you ll see how abrasi....
Grinding the secondary is just like grinding any other optic except in minature I ground the secondary with the workstand and worked the tool on top just like I would grind a larger mirror This optic is small enough that a lens grinding machine could work well...
home made grinding machine, homemade telescope mirror , an inexpensive stone mill, or home made grinder any ideas? feb 6, 2012 this is the best that i have found, , homemade glass grinding coolant/lubricant ,...
Grinding a 25-Inch F3 Telescope Mirror Thinning and Flattening the Back Gordon started with a 2 thick telescope mirror that weighed about 70 pounds By thinning the blank, he s lightened the mirror by about 20 pounds...
How to Make Your Own Telescope Mirror Fig 1 This is a large piece of glass a woman off Craigslist gave me It was 40 x40 and 075 thick Its what I decided to use to make the mirror Cutting it into smaller sections can be difficult but scoring it with a glass cutter ,...
I borrowed a few ideas from the Mirror-O-Matic mirror grinding machine, particularly how to mount the turntable on top of the pulley Anyone building machinery for cold-working glass should have a look at the MOM web site and plans There are lots of good ideas there The ,...
My Mirror Grinding Machine For a long time I ve wanted to build a machine for grinding telescope mirrors Dennis Rech s M-o-M designs finally inspired me to just get up and do it Over the years, I d been collecting motors, gear boxes, pulleys, etc Most ,...
Mar 16, 2015 0183 32 Page 1 of 5 - Making a Mirror grinding Polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum Hello, I am on the half of the way to make a mirror grinding machine inspired by original M-O-M design I made the pulley arrangement such a way that, both the turn table eccentric spins at 50 RPM fixed I wont go for making mirror bigger that 105 or max 12...
Grinding started with 220 grit and in less than 1 hour full contact was established between the mirror and all the grinding til Grinding of the secondary mirrors stared at 80grit even before the primary was joining in As the secondary diameter is about 4inch the required radius was reached in 30minut...
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