[ATM] Walking around the barrel

["Joe Johnson" <jjohnson1253@hotmail.com>]

The comments on the barrel stand have hit close to home.  You don't really need a "stand" at all!  I've been bothered with a bad back since I was a teenager (40 some years ago) and could never tolerate standing and walking around the barrel, so I built a sitdown "stand."  The construction is mainly of 2x4s and some plywood.  There is a turn table at about elbow height (when sitting) and in lieu of walking around the barrel I would give the tool a rather large turn in one direction and a smaller turn of both the tool and the mirror in the other direction and continue on with the wet.  It worked well and I finished an 8" pyrex mirror that turned out to my satisfaction.  I have just finished a grinding machine (a M-O-M) and am planning a 10 inch classical cassegrainian.  The secondary will have to be done by hand and my "stand" will again see use.
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