[ATM] A Thank You to Don Clement on Compliant Hinges!

["James Lerch" <jlerch1@tampabay.rr.com>]

Don, Thank You!  Metallic compliant hinges are AMAZING!

I'm spending a little of my own venture capital / labor on building a 16" 
Bino-scope.  One of the problems is how to do the fine inter optical collimation 
'trick'

A few weeks ago I saw your post on compliant hinges and it got me to thinking.

Today I realized just how AMAZING they are!  Talk about allowing only 1 degree 
of freedom, and COMPLETE constraint of the remaining 5 degrees of freedom!  I 
can't think of any other hinge idea that could even come close to accomplishing 
such a feat!

So Don, Thank you! :)

Now all that's left is EVERYTHING, and hope fully soon I'll be sending a Thank 
You to Mel Bartels for his "Tri-Dob" Alt / Az Idea!

Oh, and if pictures are worth a thousand words, here a short story:

(Both pages are the same, only the thumb nails link to smaller images in the 
second Low-Res URL )

http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/Projects/DF_Optics-16-Bino/page_01.htm

http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/Projects/DF_Optics-16-Bino_Low_res/page_01.htm


Take Care,
James Lerch
http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm (My telescope construction,testing, and coating site)

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