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Workshop time ...
Managed to find some time in the workshop over the weekend and progress 'Skeletope II' to a point where there is something to see.
With all credit to Rolf's awesome build for the ideas.
So in sequence, you start with the plywood and the router.
And you make some rings and bits (messy !!)
And you put them together to make a Mirror Cell
And a Central cage for all the trusses to come together, This still needs some further bracing to take DOB Bearings. It will be a dual mount scope,
And a UTA and slip ring for what I hope will be a rotating focusser system so I can still use it visually on the EQ6
Lined up in shortened form just for demonstration purposes.
In my messy workshop stretched out and clamped for measurments.
All the wood now has a good coat of Indothane varnish.
We're off to Australia for 5 days next weekend but when we get back I will also start building the observatory shed.
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