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How I built an edge grinder for telescope mirror blanks It was very quick and easy , I eventually decided I needed to build a dedicated edge grinding machine This is how I did it , I drew concentric circles on the top of the tabletop in the sizes of common telescope mirror blank diameters...

Grinding, Polishing and Figuring Thin Telescope Mirrors Abridged from an article appearing in Telescope Making 12 , There are several ways to support the grinding and polishing machine turntable, but first make sure the turntable itself is rig It must not bend...

Amateur telescope making is the activity of building telescopes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professionalAmateur telescope makers sometimes called ATMs build their instruments for personal enjoyment of a technical challenge, as a way to obtain an inexpensive or personally customized telescope, or as a research tool in the field of astronomy...

Save mirror grinding machine to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed Items in search results TELESCOPE MIRROR GRINDING Machine Design INFO PLANS original 1951...

Telescope Making TELESCOPES PAGE How I got started in ATM Optical Equipment Pitch tester, Strain testing setup, Mirror test stands, Spherometers, Slitless Foucault testers, Interference test setup, Small grinding machine, Large grinding machine Optical Articles, Tables, etc...

As often in sciences and technology, Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer, creating machines for the production of optical devic Indeed, between 1513 and 1517, he imagined machines to grind and polish telescope mirrors, which, at the time, were made of bronze...

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 almost the beginning of it here on the web, I had lots of of inspiration reading of others projects and viewing their webpages...

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page Russell Porter , Much is also unchanged - mirror grinding techniques are very similar to those written up by Porter and Ingalls in the 20 180 s and 30 180 s Many amateur astronomers still choose to fabricate their own instruments, for the pride of accomplishment, the gaining of knowledge and the insurance of ....

DIY Mirror Grinding and Telescope Making Bill s Homemade Telescope Making Project This web page provides an overview of my large homemade telescope making project I read several telescope and mirror making books and visited many amateur telescope making or ATM websites to learn how to build a 145 inch homemade telescope of this size...

There are many reasons for grinding your own mirror Either you want a unusual size, or focal length, or to satisfy your curiosity, or to have the pride of achievement by fabricating something as precise as a telescope mirror...

Grinding action of a polishing lap , During polishing and figuring of telescope mirrors the translation movement is generally chosen, because of its overall effect, preferably to the rotation movement, with its non-linear wearing off effect, which is hard to control to obtain a regular shape, free of zonal defects , Machines are not ....

Machine For Grinding Telescope Specula - wildcerorgin draper design mirror grinder , Machine For Grinding Telescope Specula Before describing brietly the machines used in grinding mirrors, it may be, , Chat With Sales machine for grinding telescope specula , henery draper mirror grinding machine china 1200mm gold mining machinery wet pan mill ....

Nov 01, 2011 0183 32 I m sure you ll do fine with the grinding Steve, I was just a little taken aback by the rotation speed, but as long as the mirror has three robust cleats in place to hold it, it shoudn t fly off Many years ago I made a machine to grind large blanks,but the largest I did was a 16 f45...

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 ,...

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 predistortion Optical Testing The Basics of Telescope Testing Test Stand...

favorite this post Telescope Mirror Grinding Machine - 100 hide this posting unhide < image 1 of 2 >QR Code Link to This Post Custom Telescope Mirror Grinding Machine Needs refurbishing can grind up to 12 inch telescope mirrors one of a kind do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers ....

Since I ve been casting my own telescope mirror blanks for several years now I finally decided it was time to build a machine to help me grind the edges of the blanks true and round This is my home-built edge grinding machine for grinding down my home-cast mirror blanks Click to see the whole project...

Mar 06, 2006 0183 32 Making a homemade mirror grinding machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum I want to make a motorized mirror grinder , any good info on this , i have a couple geared motors , low speed high torque One more question ,will 1 1/2 shaft size pillow block bearings work good for a homemade EQ mount? Thank you , John...

The Tools Grinding Polishing You will need two tools A hard tool for rough and fine grinding, and a soft tool, or pitch lap, for polishing and figuring Traditionally, the pitch lap was made on top of the grinding tool We recommend using plaster disks for tool ,...

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...

Jun 06, 2009 0183 32 Very old mirror/lens grinding machine This machine can grind and polish using different stroke patterns, ie w-stroke, short strokes, long strokes, etc Currently this machine can only operate a ....

The Saint Petersburg Mirror Lab is a small band of dedicated mirror grinders and telescope makers living in the Tampa Bay area of Florida We offer a mirror making class for interested persons We strive to create the best mirrors our home brew technology can muster This includes robotic foucault testing and laser interferometry...

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Strasbaugh polishing and grinding machine You wont find very many of these around Strasbaugh is the premier manufacture of machines used by the professionals This machine is solid no plastic or wood You can adjust the spindle and eccentric speed with a turn of a knob while running It makes mirror grinding a pure joy...

DATSCOPE - Telescope mirror grinding machine New grinding machine The new grinding machine is being used to re-make the old TRO 30 inch mirror and the three 20 inch , More telescope mirror grinding / polishing machine with , 2016-02-15 The machine is shown grinding a 300 mm mirror How to build a tachometer ....

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...

Grinding Machine for Large Telescope Mirrors I designed and built a grinding machine for mirrors up to 42 inches 11m in diameter By slipping on and off a couple of belts, the machine can quickly be reconfigured for spinning work or for stroking work The machine can also work smaller mirrors if the drip pan is moved to the fast shaft on ....

Want to build your own telescope? Start with one of our telescope mirror kits Each kit comes with a telescope mirror blank and all the abrasives silicon carbide grits and white aluminum oxide powders , cerium oxide polish and pitch to grind and polish it to your specifications...

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