[ATM] RE: Primary Mirror Retainers

[stuart452 at earthlink.net (Stuart Hutchins)]

Thanks, Matt,

So the body of  the micrometer is not mounted in the lower flex disk, but is
mounted in the bottom end of the telescope tube?

Stuart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew L. Brown" <mlbrown@everstrive.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [ATM] RE: Primary Mirror Retainers


>
> >  What am I missing?
> >
> >Stuart
> He's got 2 diaphragms deflecting in parallel.  Radially, it's quite
> stiff.  This will move like a 3D parallelogram, and keep the mirror moving
> in parallel.  I've used this many times in other applications, and it
works
> quite well.  No bearings needed, so it gives very smooth motion.
>
> =Matt
>
>
>
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