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["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

To all:

I have assembled all my ducks now, and I am ready to begin writing my magnus 
opum on how to build a plywood mounting for large optics that is built to 
nearly machinists' tolerances, even in it's "grosser" components (Howard 
Hughes did this, too, with the Hercules flying boat, imagined in Plywood). 
It will be offered free to all of you, or any of you, who would like to have 
it.

You see, I had an inspiration that anyone could reproduce the mounting that 
I built, even though I foolishly lost the templates- what the heck, I 
destroyed them; I am capable of idiocy sometimes- I have enough photographs, 
and enough methods (alternative methods) to be able to recover the 
dimensions and geometry very accurately, from these photographs. You see, I 
had somehow failed to be stupid  enough when I kept perhaps the only 
template that would work as "Rosetta Stone", so that I could recover the 
dimensions and forms of the other templates, scale the other templates, in 
the photographs with. I  failed to destroy the template for the primary 
horizontal member of the undercarriage of this telescope; here is that 
template:

http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/Templates,%20med/ROLL4JPG-10.JPG

Please read the whole article about this telescope, as I originally wrote 
it, way back when I was still a "newbie". Here:

http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/Sym.Eq.Mntng.html

So the prototype and the templates to this wonderful creation of mine were 
lost. But they weren't! So I will be writing, and lavishly illustrating with 
a new, never been put to digits hoard of photodocumentation of the 
construction, and  new hoard of the most exquisitely beautiful CAD 
renderings, concept models for the structure of each and every component. I 
am going to start writing it in two formats in parallel, and will be 
offering it as installments of html email chapters using Microsoft Outlook 
Express, and in parallel, will be writing it and illustrating it in Word 
2000, so that it may be available as a complete work in the round. Why am I 
doing this? Because over the years, I keep getting requests for such a 
document, from atms. I have just decided to get off my duff and do it.

No one wanted to come to Oklahoma and use those templates to trace their 
parts onto their AC plywood, and take them home and cut the component parts 
out and build their telescope; what they wanted was to be able to have the 
information without travelling.

I will be making a new folder on my machine for subscribers, a folder called 
"requests"; each and every one of you will receive, free, each installment 
of this exhaustive and comprehensive work as it come off of my machine, for 
free.

Read the article, those of you who haven't, if you think there is a 
possibility that you might like to be part of the movement I intend to start 
back towards the elegant symmetrical equatorial mounting for large optics.

Now I know why I built that wonderful, capable, versatile mount. It was for 
this announcement. Please inquire or subscribe; send me your inquiries or 
subscription. Click here:

scarab2@cox.net

By the way, boys, I cannot afford home owner insurance, even, and drive a 
battered T-34 tank around that I could't give away, if I tried. But my cable 
connection makes miracles possible for me, and I guess, on my below poeverty 
level income, it is not a burden. I recommend it to those of you still using 
dial-up. Just give up a few hamburgers per month.

Help me fill up that new folder.

David





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