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Telpe Mirror Making: Part Rough Grinding This is part 2 of my video series documenting grinding and polishing a inch telpe mirror. I'm using a spin or fixed post grinding machine. This video shows a few initial stages of making a primary mirror for a telpe. After hogging the mirror blank to depth, the rough grinding stage begins.

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MIRROR GRINDING MACHINE. I made my first mirror grinding and polishing machine over thirty years ago. It used the working principle of the machine illustrated at "A" Fig.3, Page 163, "Amateur Telpe Making" Book 1. A bowl which rotated was fitted to the spindle. I also built another machine .

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8th place Da Vinci Gear Challenge Winner FLYING MACHINE by nicolas.marc-1. Awesome concept and design work! Not sure the degrees that transfer the rotation 90 degrees would work very well, so it's hard to tell if this would work in practice. Would earn top marks if user had printed it .

Amateur telpe making is the activity of building telpes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professional.Amateur telpe makers (sometimes called ATMs) build their instruments for personal enjoyment of a technical challenge, as a way to obtain an inexpensive or personally customized telpe, or as a research tool in the field of astronomy.

There are a lot of misconceptions about making a mirror - read this even if you don't plan to make a mirror, but just want to know how it is done - with your bare hands and a few simple tools, you can grind and figure a fine mirror with a surface accurate to a few millionths of an inch! Telpe Formulas and Design Comparator

Sep 21, 2008· The Diamond curve generating machine in this video is grinding a 16' mirror blank. The purpose of this machine is to generate a curve into the mirror using homemade grinding tools, a diamond saw ...

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The Design . I began by measuring the sizes of what I already had, a 1/3 hp 1750 rpm electric motor and a 25:1 geared speed reducer. Then I took a rough cut at the MoM-20 H-frame and placed the motor and gear box on it. Lining up the pulleys, drilling holes for the mounting bolts and making sure the belts would clear everything drove the design

The mirror machine came to me as a result of astronomical horse-trading, swapping a large GEM mount and a 8" Newtonian OTA for the machine as it was and a start kit consisting of two 6" blanks and the grit, rouge and pitch to manufacture a mirror. The grinding machine had been built to the design of the mirror-o-matic design of Dennis Rech ...

I finally decided it was time to build a machine to help me grind the edges of the blanks true and round. This is my home-built edge grinding machine for grinding down my home-cast mirror blanks. Click to see the whole project. This is a 12.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch thick, light-weight honeycomb-back telpe mirror blank that I made myself.

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Rough grinding is complete for the 12.5 inch honeycomb-back telpe mirror blank. The rough grinding went pretty quickly and painlessly this time. I only have maybe 12 hours of actual work in the mirror so far. It's hard to believe, but the rough grinding has removed over a pound of glass. The mirror now weighs in at only only 8 pounds 15 ounces.

Mirror grinding machine construction log I started thinking about building my own mirror grinding machine several years ago. Having been on the ATM list now since almost the beginning of it here on the web, I had lots of of inspiration reading of others projects and viewing their webpages

Dec 06, 2009· The movie shows the Zeiss machine in all its phases, putting together notes, drawings and films that make up the story: from initial idea to the project, manufacturing of machine parts to the ...

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The mount design is very similar to that described in Kriege and Berry's book, "The Dobsonian Telpe - A practical manual for building large aperture telpes". However, instead of using steel, I used wood. ... Supplier of mirror grinding and polishing materials, including Microgrit and Gugolz pitch.

Design plans for a Power Grinder for Telpe Mirrors. The machine automatically carries out the motions for grinding and polishing a 6" Telpe Mirror. hand grinding. These are not detailed How-To Plans - they do however cover all the details needed for designing your own custom machine. Uses a 1/3 hp electric motor. Wood frame construction

Grinding the secondary is just like grinding any other optic except in minature. I ground the secondary with the workstand and worked the tool on top just like I would grind a larger mirror. This optic is small enough that a lens grinding machine could work well.

Astronomy, telpe making,mirror grinding and testing Large Thin Mirror Making by Mel Bartels Grinding Machines Mirror-o-matic Tom Waineo's Desktop Grinding/Polishing Machine Ken Lilja's Grinding Machine Grinding Machine Figuring Figuring a Paraboidal mirror by thermal predistortion Optical Testing The Basics of Telpe Testing Test Stand

In addition, a great deal of money will be saved: a finished 24" scope will set you back $7,000; grinding your own mirror and building the mount yourself will cost you $2,000. Amateurs have made mirrors up to 41" by hand. A grinding machine relieves the labor, but is not necessary. A 24" is the largest you can comfortably do solo.

The automatic measuring device was applied to the grinding machine in 1908. Around 1920, centerless grinders, double-face grinders, roll grinders, guide grinders, honing machines and superfinishing machines were used. In the 1950s, there was a high-precision cylindrical grinding machine that could be used for mirror grinding.

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