Re: [ATM] Looking for a source of ApplePly plywood

["Rappe', Mike" <Mike.Rappe@hp.com>]

Thanks for the reply. 
Do you have a good place that sells baltic birch. I know of some places
in Houston that do but I have not priced them yet. I live near Katy.
Also I need to find the source for the truss poles. Right now I have a
10" f6 Discovery  PDHQ Dob which I am going to convert to a truss design
for practice so that I can eventually build a larger one and so that I
don't have to haul around the tube.


 
Thank You,
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Mike Rappe
AMS Shared GO+IT
Hewlett-Packard Company
(281)514-2253 office
(281)914-1261 cell
 mike.rappe@hp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: NGC704@aol.com [mailto:NGC704@aol.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:08 PM
To: Rappe', Mike; atm@atmlist.net
Subject: Re: [ATM] Looking for a source of ApplePly plywood

 
In a message dated 1/6/2006 6:21:14 P.M. Central Standard Time,
Mike.Rappe@hp.com writes:

I live  in houston texas and I am looking for a  source of  ApplePly


Howdy, Neighbor...
 
I live in League City, and urge you to dismiss the term  'Appleply' as a
mythical type of plywood that Dave Kriege likes to  mercilessly tease us
with for some unknown reason. We southerners are doomed  never to
manifestly know or understand it; at least, as far as I can tell after
ten or fifteen years of telescope making here on the Texas Gulf Coast,
with the  all the resources of the enormous international metroplex of
Houston at my  beck and call given the Yellow Pages and half a tank of
gas.
 
I suggest you focus instead on good old readily available Baltic Birch
plywood. The half-inch stuff, which is what I use on Dobbies up to 22
inches, is made up of like nine tight plys, and the surface veneers are
of a dandy  blonde maple color and grain for the most part, and is
reasonably priced. I have had excellent luck with it over the course of
some two dozen telescopes, mounts,  and EQ platforms so far, and have no
qualms whatever about recommending  it.
 
Having said that, it's always important to inspect, and select, your
stock before laying down the cash no matter what you're building. And to
design your telescope wisely for maximum strength with minimal weight.
Give me a holler any  old time if you like. There's nothing I love
better than talking ATM, and it  shouldn't be long distance.  

Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City,  Texas


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