RE: ATM - Travel Scope

[Benjamin Robbins <benjaminr@highwire.com>]

Charles,

Thanks for the compliments. Apologies to the wife. :) 

Excellent idea on the opening...we knew we needed to do something, just
haven't gotten there yet. This is all a constant work in progress.

One other fact I forgot to mention...the scope is under 40lbs and could
easily be made to weigh less. 

Benjamin in Seattle

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Charles F [mailto:quantemlp@hotmail.com] 
Sent:	Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:07 PM
To:	Benjamin Robbins; mbartels@efn.org; atm@shore.net
Subject:	Re: ATM - Travel Scope

Hello,

well I went to the web site for your travel scope,  I showed my wife it and 
now she wants to know where you live so she can beat you up now that she is 
looseing her husband (me) again to the workshop for a redesign of my scope 
LOL LOL.

that is an awsome job on the scope.  Im jellouse that I didnt think of that 
before.  I have 3 boys, 4,7,10 and I am involved in cubscouts, as a matter 
of fact, january is our astonomy month. hmmmm maybe Ill make some parts to 
the new scope each week and bring them down and fit them with the cubscouts 
and they can see a telescope being built over the course of a month.  I like

the fact that you used PVC piping for the truss sections and chains.  I 
think that your design is very well put together and I hope you dont mind if

I do some copying of it.  On the hole that was cut for the mirror cover, I 
found that treating the sides on both the cover and opening with a rubber 
strip, it eleminates any chaffing from of the wood - wood contact and the 
scruff that falls off onto the mirror.  Mine will be an 8" scope.  Thank you

for sharing this with us all and nice job :)

Charles in wilmington ma
>
>Hello All,
>
>Wanted to get feedback and give you an update on the travel scopes that we
>have been working on over the last few months. They are both 10" mirrors
>f-5.5. they are designed to fit into a regulation size carry on luggage.
>Your comments(both praise and criticism) are very welcome!
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~benjaminr/MirrorImages/TwinScopes/TwinScopes.htm
>
>
>The secondary is still under some design changes. We were not able to
>incorporate the prototype that I sent to the list a few months a go
>concerning the folding altitude bearings
>(http://home.earthlink.net/~benjaminr/MirrorImages/Prototype.htm ) into 
>this
>current design but is hasn't been forgotten!
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Benjamin
>
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