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Old 11-04-2018, 12:52 PM
Stefan Buda
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Originally Posted by Lognic04 View Post
Wow, very cool that you are 3D printing the spider! Not too long until people start 3d printing whole telescope tubes!
It's been done, just google "3D printed telescope", and you will find a few examples. Except those are not very useful telescopes.
I intend to use 3D printing only in ways that will not compromise performance.

I have fished assembling the mandrel, this morning, and I'm very envious of Elon Musk because he made a bigger one.
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