telescope mirror grinding machines

    • telescope mirror grinding / polishing machine with ...

    Feb 15, 2016  The machine is shown grinding a 300 mm mirror.How to build a tachometer: florin.myip.org/blog/making-tachometer-grinding-polishing-machine-telescope-m...

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    • Mirror Grinding Machine

    My Mirror Grinding Machine. For a long time I've wanted to build a machine for grinding telescope mirrors. Dennis Rech's M-o-M designs finally inspired me to just get up and do it. Over the years, I'd been collecting motors, gear boxes, pulleys, etc. Most

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    • Grinding Machine for Large Telescope Mirrors

    Grinding Machine for Large Telescope Mirrors. I designed and built a grinding machine for mirrors up to 42 inches [1.1m] in diameter. By slipping on and off a couple of belts, the machine can quickly be reconfigured for spinning work or for stroking work. The machine can also work smaller mirrors

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    • Mirror Grinding Machine, G. W. Ritchey National Air and ...

    George Willis Ritchey built this mirror grinding machine at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, in the late 1890s. Under the sponsorship of George Ellery Hale, the machine was used to grind a series of telescope mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telescope initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory.

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    • Astro-Tel - Mirror grinding machine

    MIRROR GRINDING MACHINE. I made my first mirror grinding and polishing machine over thirty years ago. It used the working principle of the machine illustrated at "A" Fig.3, Page 163, "Amateur Telescope Making" Book 1. A bowl which rotated was fitted to the spindle. I also built another machine

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    • Newport Glass Works, LTD. Grinding, Polishing and Figuring ...

    Thin Telescope Mirrors . Abridged from an article appearing in Telescope Making #12 Provided: Courtesy of Astronomy Magazine Article's Author: Bob Kestner . Part I - Grinding . For many years, amateur astronomers and telescope makers thought it essential that glass for telescope primary mirrors be at least one-sixth as thick as its diameter.

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    • Mirror grinding - Telescope making

    A good starter size is the 150 mm (6") mirror. A 200mm (8") will also work. Most ATM books and websites recommend a Pyrex® mirror blank, but in my opinion, annealed plate glass is better for this first, "learn and practice" mirror.It is cheaper, it is softer

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    • Mike's Telescope Workshop

    This is my home-built edge grinding machine for grinding down my home-cast mirror blanks. Click to see the whole project. This is a 12.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch thick, light-weight honeycomb-back telescope mirror blank that I made myself.

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    • Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine ...

    Oct 15, 2012  Page 1 of 2 - Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hey guys. Im thinking of making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing and curve generating machine. Ive got loads of questions regarding the design so Ill just start firing away Do I need an eccentric moving tool to be able to polish a mirror spherical?

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    • Stellafane ATM:Mirror Making Myths

    Mirrors can only be made with Special Precision Equipment in Expensive Factories or Labs; Not True! Telescope mirrors can be made in your kitchen, basement or garage with nothing more than the mirror blank and a second piece of glass (called the tool) to rub the mirror

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    • Mirror Grinding Machine, G. W. Ritchey National Air and ...

    George Willis Ritchey built this mirror grinding machine at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, in the late 1890s. Under the sponsorship of George Ellery Hale, the machine was used to grind a series of telescope mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telescope initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory.

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    • Telescope Mirror Grinding Machine Products Suppliers ...

    After experimenting with copper and tin alloys for the metal reflecting surface and developing his own steam-driven mirror grinding machine , this telescope was completed in 1839. Optomechanical tests and performance results of the SIRTF cryogenic optical system. The flight secondary mirror of the telescope was machined , ground , and polished ...

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    • Astro-Tel - Mirror grinding machine

    MIRROR GRINDING MACHINE. I made my first mirror grinding and polishing machine over thirty years ago. It used the working principle of the machine illustrated at "A" Fig.3, Page 163, "Amateur Telescope Making" Book 1. A bowl which rotated was fitted to the spindle. I also built another machine

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    • Mirror Grinding Machine Hackaday

    Sep 26, 2006  The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of lapping the blank by hand, Laurie Hall built ...

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    • tut44 Making A Mirror Grinding Tool - Asterism.org

    want to learn more about Newtonian telescopes the internet is replete with information about all types of telescopes. Typically, the primary mirror is made of glass. Pyrex is commonly used for the primary mirror because of its thermal stability, but for small mirrors, plate glass will work fine too. Telescope mirrors are relatively thick.

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    • Mirror grinding - Telescope making

    A good starter size is the 150 mm (6") mirror. A 200mm (8") will also work. Most ATM books and websites recommend a Pyrex® mirror blank, but in my opinion, annealed plate glass is better for this first, "learn and practice" mirror.It is cheaper, it is softer

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    • Newport Glass Works, LTD. Grinding, Polishing and Figuring ...

    Thin Telescope Mirrors . Abridged from an article appearing in Telescope Making #12 Provided: Courtesy of Astronomy Magazine Article's Author: Bob Kestner . Part I - Grinding . For many years, amateur astronomers and telescope makers thought it essential that glass for telescope primary mirrors be at least one-sixth as thick as its diameter.

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    • Mike's Telescope Workshop

    This is my home-built edge grinding machine for grinding down my home-cast mirror blanks. Click to see the whole project. This is a 12.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch thick, light-weight honeycomb-back telescope mirror blank that I made myself.

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    • Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine ...

    Oct 15, 2012  Page 1 of 2 - Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hey guys. Im thinking of making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing and curve generating machine. Ive got loads of questions regarding the design so Ill just start firing away Do I need an eccentric moving tool to be able to polish a mirror spherical?

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    • Stellafane ATM:Mirror Making Myths

    Mirrors can only be made with Special Precision Equipment in Expensive Factories or Labs; Not True! Telescope mirrors can be made in your kitchen, basement or garage with nothing more than the mirror blank and a second piece of glass (called the tool) to rub the mirror

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    • Build your own telescope part 1: The mirror – Thomas ...

    On the opposite, a shallow mirror (e.g. F/D = 8) will be performing very well on planets and the moon. The theory behind grinding is that you can remove glass as long as you use a material with a higher hardness. Telescope makers use silicon carbide powders

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    • mirror grinding machine worldcrushers

    May 15, 2013  New grinding machine The new grinding machine is being used to re-make the old TRO 30 inch mirror and the three 20 inch mirrors. It will be capable of making a Mirror grinding machine construction log – JamesCrombie page1

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    • telescope mirror grinding machine plans

    Astro-Tel - Mirror grinding machine. MIRROR GRINDING MACHINE. I made my first mirror grinding and polishing machine over thirty years ago. It used the working principle of the machine illustrated at "A" Fig.3, Page 163, "Amateur Telescope Making" Book 1. A bowl which rotated was fitted to the spindle. I also built another machine of the same type.

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    • Mel Bartels' Amateur Telescope Making

    The I.A.U. named asteroid 17823 Bartels discovered 1998 by J.M.Roe in recognition for my contributions to amateur astronomy. Making is the Key to Knowing. A telescope mirror is arguably the most accurate surface made by human or machine. Amazingly you can grind a mirror by hand and make a telescope with simple hand tools.

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    • Ritchey Mirror Grinding Machine National Air and Space ...

    George Willis Ritchey built this mirror grinding machine at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, in the late 1890s. Under the sponsorship of George Ellery Hale, the machine was used to grind a series of telescope mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telescope initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory.

    Read More
    • Mirror Grinding Machine Hackaday

    Sep 26, 2006  The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of lapping the blank by hand, Laurie Hall built ...

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    • Mirror-o-Matic mirror making machine - ATM pages of ...

    Mirror-O-Matic grinding machine. When I decided in 2009 after a ten-year break to get into mirror making again, it quickly became clear to me that I would need to construct machine, as hand grinding big mirrors is not something very beneficial for the hands

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    • mirror grinding machine worldcrushers

    May 15, 2013  New grinding machine The new grinding machine is being used to re-make the old TRO 30 inch mirror and the three 20 inch mirrors. It will be capable of making a Mirror grinding machine construction log – JamesCrombie page1

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    • Making a tachometer for a grinding / polishing machine for ...

    When making a telescope mirror on the machine, two parameters are important: the rotation speed of the mirror, and the rotation speed of the overarm eccentric. Other environmental parameters also matter: temperature and humidity are foremost here.

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    • telescope mirror grinding machine plans

    Astro-Tel - Mirror grinding machine. MIRROR GRINDING MACHINE. I made my first mirror grinding and polishing machine over thirty years ago. It used the working principle of the machine illustrated at "A" Fig.3, Page 163, "Amateur Telescope Making" Book 1. A bowl which rotated was fitted to the spindle. I also built another machine of the same type.

    Read More
    • Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine ...

    Oct 15, 2012  Page 1 of 2 - Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hey guys. Im thinking of making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing and curve generating machine. Ive got loads of questions regarding the design so Ill just start firing away Do I need an eccentric moving tool to be able to polish a mirror spherical?

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    • Making a Mirror grinding Polishing machine - ATM, Optics ...

    Mar 16, 2015  Page 1 of 5 - Making a Mirror grinding Polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hello, I am on the half of the way to make a mirror grinding machine inspired by original M-O-M design. I made the pulley arrangement such a way that, both the turn table eccentric spins at 50 RPM fixed. I wont go for making mirror bigger that 10.5 (or max 12).

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    • jeffbaldwin.org

    Fixed-post machine grinding is where the mirror is on a turntable rotating around 20 PRM [speeds vary], and a 75% tool is on top. They are already curve-generated. The tool is hanging over the mirror by 1/6 the diameter of the tool, or about 1/8 diameter of the mirror, and is fixed in this position.

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    • Mel Bartels' Amateur Telescope Making

    The I.A.U. named asteroid 17823 Bartels discovered 1998 by J.M.Roe in recognition for my contributions to amateur astronomy. Making is the Key to Knowing. A telescope mirror is arguably the most accurate surface made by human or machine. Amazingly you can grind a mirror by hand and make a telescope with simple hand tools.

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    • Amateur Telescope Making Main Page - Stellafane

    Grinding a Mirror "For it is true that astronomy, from a popular standpoint, is handicapped by the inability of the average workman to own an expensive astronomical telescope. It is also true that if an amateur starts out to build a telescope just for fun he will find, before his labors are over, that he has become seriously interested in the ...

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    • Stellafane ATM: Grits, Polish Pitch

    Mel Bartels, a well respected west coast amateur, recommends on his Large, Thin Mirror Grinding web page starting with something between 30 and 60 grit, and then 120, 220, 500 (=25 micron) and finishing with 9 micron. This is just a 5 grit sequence, as

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    • Waite Research Mirrors For Telescopes - Science ...

    Grinding 14.75" Quartz Telescope Mirror. 27. What's new? Gordon built the new grinding machine to accept easily-interchangeable turntables. "The turntables just lift right off the machine. There is a socket on the drive shaft (actually just a pulley) and the turntable has three mating pieces that drop down into the socket holes. Changing ...

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    • Mirror-o-matic

    The Machines: Documentation: Information for ATMs Zip archive of Mirror-o-Matic Yahoo Groups (2000-2019) 307 MB Contact Dennis ...

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