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What do you think?
Guy B
--- mtolb25356@aol.com wrote:
> To: Make_Your_Own_Telescope@yahoogroups.com
> From: mtolb25356@aol.com
> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 22:56:30 EDT
> Subject: Re: my ota Foolish new guy!
>
> we have had a lot of luck hogging out 8" mirrors
> using an iron pipe cap 4"
> across. I drilled and tapped the center and put a
> bolt in it. we chuck the
> bolt in a drill press put the blank on a lazy
> Suzanne and raise the edge of the
> table. put water and 80 grit on the black the edge
> of the pipe cap is at the
> center of the disk. we can hog an 8" f 6 in about 10
> minuets im sure it would
> work on a bigger mirror with a bigger pipe.
>
Guy Brandenburg
Washington, DC
My home page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfbranden/GFB_Home_Page.html
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