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Thanks guys. Again, please don't give me all the credit - I had a lot of help along the way from many people from many facets of life. (IIS members included).
Starting with the most important and awesome fellow, the structural engineer, none of this would have been possible without him. If I had done the structural design myself, it would have been more than adequate, but it would have had FAR TOO MUCH METAL in it and I would have spent a fortune. The structural engineer showed me how to get the most strength and rigidity without spending that fortune and wasting all the steel I was going to buy.
Sharing every little detail of the build has always been my way of thanking all those people as I have gleaned information and ideas from the world - so too I get to give it all back, (My triumphs, my failures, my frustrations) for the next generation of observatory builders.
THANK YOU EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.
Still not quite finished yet, but getting close.
Baz.
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