Re: ATM Restoring an old Coude refractor

[Assaf Berwald <meshoamam@yahoo.com>]

I posted this earlier today but apparently to the
wrong adress...my apologies. Here's the message:


> Hello all,
> Many thanks for the tons of useful info' Ive
> recieved
> so quickly from you all.
> I've just got back from a visit in the observatory
> to
> have a look at the scope and take some measurements
> (for the roll-off shed it will ,hopefully, be in). I
> also managed to find that the label on the scope
> says
> "Manfred Wachter Stuttgart" (apparently it was
> covered
> with some paint so I missed it so far). Dont know
> what
> about you, but Im not femiliar with this name (quite
> logical since this scope was mounted in our
> observatory at 1969...10 years before I was even
> born.
> I did manage to have a look through it as a child
> once
> and back then was amazed with the views. Too bad
> that
> at the age of 8 I knew nothing about star testing
> and
> collimation (G)).
> I took a look at the mount and it seems to be as
> new:
> no rust anywhere, shafts are rotating freely with no
> visible play anywhere. The RA worm gear is about 8"
> with a rather thick worm moving it. The RA drive
> consists of two motors:one gives the sidereal rate
> and
> the other ,smaller one, is connected via a
> differential gear (just like a car's drive) to the
> first one's axis and is used to make drive
> corrections
> with a simple hand controller. Both motors seem to
> be
> working but need some cleaning as it wasnt stored
> closed for many years. 
> 
> Tomorrow I will start working at least on the top
> end
> of the objective. I will keep you guys updated with
> any results,
> Many thanks again!!
> Assaf B.
> 
> 
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