[ATM] 4.5" Truss Dob

[stuart452 at earthlink.net (Stuart Hutchins)]

Torquil,

I don't have even a picture of my first telescope, 4-1/4 inch Newtonian.
But no loss; it is not a design I would do again.

I have seen some where on the web a site offering full scale plans for 6"
and 8" Dobs.  But I did not save that link.  You might have better luck
looking in some books which often have more detail than the web.  Two books
recommended to me, (but I have not read) which show smaller scopes:

All About Telescopes by Brown and  Build Your Own Telescope by Berry

both are published by Willman-Bell. www.willbell.com.

Stuart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Torquil MacCorkle, III" <torquil@chemist.com>
To: "Stuart Hutchins" <stuart452@earthlink.net>; <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] 4.5" Truss Dob


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> > I have not seen anything that small.  What do you mean by
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> > Do you mean highly detailed? Or do you mean covering all possibilities?
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> I mean highly detailed
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> > Have you seen larger designs you like that can be scaled down?
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> I have seen pictures and several paragraph synopsises, but no detailed,
> step-by-step summaries of construction.  Does anything like that exist?
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