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Originally Posted by glend
Excellent workmanship Matt, really like the colour scheme and finish. You'll be giving SDM some worries. Have you kept track of the hours you put into this scope? When you get the inevitable question - "can you build one for me?", you will need to be able to price your labour. I don't think the average punter understands just how much work is involved in something like your scope.
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Thanks very much Glen. I have hidden all the receipts so my dear wife doesn't see them, as for the hours ........ I haven't bothered keeping track.
I dare say it would have been finished in far less time if I had a workshop.
There are some parts here that would not be feasible in a commercial operation so I think Peter Read and SDM are safe
. Peter has been a huge help in getting this scope built, both with ideas and supplying materials. I think he and I will be enjoying some fine wines one of these days.
The other contributor of note to this project has been John Bambury, with lots of good ideas from his years of experience.
As an example of time consuming things, the Pole Clamps arrived as plain square blocks, they then had to be drilled at the correct angle, split using the slide saw, edges planed with a wood plane as you can't sand the stuff. Once attached to the mirror box, the clamping bolt (M8x 100 stainless steel) had to have the head polished to mirror shine, the lock nuts were cut in half to make them only 2.5mm thick. M8 'T' nuts were set into the reinforcing plate inside the mirror box. The knobs were sourced through Amazon and are valve handles, these had the powder coating removed prior to etch priming and painting ................ (exhausting just to type about it...)