Telescope Making 2


hobby.

The glass casting oven is a oven made from scratch where it is able to make up to a 20′ mirror blank. Diamond Curve Generating Machine/Mirror grinding & polishing- Own personal design/invention, uses a roller coaster, where the diamond grinder rides the curve track.

Able to do any curve of radius(negative or positive) because of the spring steel track design.

Able to grind/polish up to a 32′ mirror. 40′ Vacuum Tank.

The mirror sits vertical, attaching itself to the door with an …



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December 29, 2009 at 09:21

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December 29, 2009

By xFrogsharkx

Diffusion pump only.

Great job! Question: Are you planning to integrate both the diffusion Pump & Turbo-Molecular Vacuum Pump section simultaneously; Thx

By togaida

Man! This is a well-equipped telescope making garage. . . Garage. . . I thought garage filled with machine tools was a dream that. . . This is a wet dream! (sorry, could not help myself) with all the [sophisticated] homemade equipment you have there, I see machine tools (lathes, milling machines and so on, and you can not say that d does not know how to use it because …

Well, I do not want you alram, but dude, you built a telescope-making shop …

You can learn to machine … Easy …. Lol

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