Re: [ATM] ATM: Catalogue and instructions, big mounting.

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

Hi Dave

If you have enough faith in the US Postal Service and me, I can scan the
negatives for you (if they are 35m) and then ship them back along with
the CD(s) containing the scanned images. At a resolution of 1024 across
and saving them as JPG's I should be able to get a large number of them
on a single CD. You could then resize them to fit the webpages using
photoshop.

George

Clear skies and good health

David Harbour wrote:
> 
> To all:
> 
> One of the visitors to my web site likes the idea of my large, one person
> transportable, fully latitude adjustable fork equatorial mounting so much
> that I have had to start writing a catalogue for the many (over a hundred)
> photographs I made of the construction progress for this mounting, which can
> carry lightweight optics up to twenty inches' aperture. In captioning each
> photograph for the photo catalogue, I find that I am writing complete
> instructions for the asembly of this large (but one person transportaable)
> mounting. If I am going to the trouble of writing this up (it is taking far
> more time than I thought) I want them to be available for any one else who
> would like to build the mounting.
> 
> I tried very hard to give away the templates, a long time ago, and was
> convinced that a continuing lack of response for my offer to use them free
> of charge to lay out all of one's parts for their big mounting portended
> that no one would ever be interested in building this kind of instrument
> again, and so I broke up the templates; no one was interested, I couldn't
> even give them away. However, two have now expressed interest in building
> this rather unique mounting (it is easily fully latitude adjustable and one
> person transportable) and so I am glad that I saved the photographs (well
> over a hundred, detailing almost every step of construction). I will put
> them to CD, directly from the negatives, and I will be able to make a CD for
> anyone who might like to try to build one of these.
> 
> I now rather deeply regret breaking up the templates. No dimensioned
> drawings of this mounting EVER existed. The dimensions for each and every
> part went from my head into the templates as I laid them out. It will be
> quite awhile before I have the complete catalogue/instructions finished, but
> I thought I would let all of you know about the project, in case any of you
> are interested in building a mount like mine. When I started to build my
> observatory building with its roll off roof, I did not even get the
> foundation excavation finished before my body told me to forget it, old man.
> If any of you have not seen this mounting, which I built to machinist's
> tolerances, you may see it at:
> 
> http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/Sym.Eq.Mntng.html
> 
> The photos and instructions/catalogue will be available to anyone who wants
> them, when I get done with writing them up (and find enough scratch to put
> the several hundred negatives to CD at the local photofinisher place). I
> gave this mounting to my friend Ken Hunter; I hope he has found it well made
> and useful.
> 
> Davey
> 
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