My good friend Ron has given me the honor of rebuilding his historic telescope. He handed me sveral parts, some beyond repair, some missing altogether. It has been quite a research project on his behalf just to get me as much information as he can so I have something to go on to rebuild things that havent been made for over a century.
His website, antiquescopes.com lists all the old telescopes of this kind to be found in the world to date, with a full photo and text documentation of the rebuild/restore of this particular instrument.
I for one, and immensely grateful to Ron, for giving me this opportunity, and placing his trust in me with this historically priceless instrument.
I am learning and re-creating metal working techniques that haven't been done in over 100 years. To me, this is experience that I will cherish as long as I live, as I feel a lot of this "manual" skill in engineering is being lost to automation and CNC machining.
Anyway, here are a few teaser pics of the work I have been doing with Ron's constant feedback of information and encouragement. More on his website.
http://www.antiquescopes.com/Restoration.aspx
Cheers,
Baz.
