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Newtonian on GEM tube ring modification

Discussion in 'Telescopes and Mounts' started by Nebula, Jun 16, 2017.

Newtonian on GEM tube ring modification

Started by Nebula on Jun 16, 2017 at 4:02 PM

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  1. Nebula

    Nebula Well-Known Member

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    Thanks Dave I glad you like it, if it can give another open source option to people instead of buying expensive new parts like these uglies.

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    I prefer to buy some tools occasionally to build things myself if possible..
     
  2. Dave In Vermont

    Dave In Vermont Well-Known Member

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    Uhto! I think Agena sells those! :D

    (Glad I'm a democratic-socialist!).....

    I was lucky. I didn't catch the "Tool-Bug" until I was around 21, and was very into bicycles - just to rub mud in the face of a certain idiot who claimed he was the greatest mechanic ever hatched! With an incentive like this, and a long trail of friend's of mine having their bicycles & cars destroyed by this 'genius' - I set off to Oregon to the United Bicycle Institute, where I was one of their first students. Excellent people and tons of knowledge to prey upon! :p And thus I caught the 'Tool-Bug,' with a set goal in mind.

    I fixed all those people's bikes and showed them how to use 'Zen and the Art of Tool-Use.' They then fixed their own cars! I'm still of mind to believe there's only one appropriate 'Fix' for a car:

    - HONK! HONK!
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    Modern-Art Labs - Coffee-Table for Luddites

    So of course your home-brew OTA-Rotating Rings & Pdf. brings accolades from the likes of me & my band of Merry Pranksters! (People warn me I should come equipped with a Splash-Gard® & Thesaurus as standard-equipment for talking with me...) So please feed & nourish your 'Creativity-Bug' daily. I only hope it's it's a "Catching-Disease" like smallpox or the pneumonic-plague. But only lethal to fascists.

    From what limited perspective allowed by your how-to images you added, it looks like you have a very good lay-out of some very cool tools. Mine are scattered about my workshop/storage-space/futon-pad/optics' lab. Having a photographic-memory (which everyone does, but the public schools punish their vict...er...students for using) helps to make for ready access.

    In the Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts area (for one, I'm sure) some mechanical-folks have aquired a warehouse-flat in which they all store their tool-collections. New people are encouraged to join with theirs and share with all. And hold teaching-workshops to show any & all how these all work and are applied in such by demonstrations. I think this is a wonderful idea! I've been thinking of organizing a similar gig up here, but I'm forever being side-tracked by this, that, and just plain BS! But it's at least worthy of spreading around as an idea in search of nest!

    So do carry onwards & upwards with your projects, and please to keep the camera ready,

    Dave
     

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