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Nov 01, 2011 · Hi AllWeve been having some idle discussions about grinding mirrors here. In particular, weve been discussing building a fixed post mirror grinding turntable for cutting mirrors up to about a 24inch diameter to spherical. Its only a pipe dream at the .
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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 telescope mirror blank that I made myself.
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Sep 26, 2006 · The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of lapping the blank by hand, Laurie Hall built this mirror grinding machine from scratch. His site has notes covering his mirror creation machines and other projects.
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This is why you don't want to make mirrors to be worked on machines too thin. For 16" to 18" mirrors, 1.62" thick is the thinness I would recommend. There are several ways to support the grinding and polishing machine turntable, but first make sure the turntable itself is rigid. It .
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Save mirror grinding machine to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed. + Items in search results. SPONSORED. TELESCOPE MIRROR GRINDING Machine Design INFO PLANS original 1951. Pre-Owned. $17.89. Top Rated Plus. Sellers with highest buyer ratings ... GLASS EDGING POLISHER MACHINE 9 MOTORS FOR GLASS AND MIRROR EDGING AND POLISHING ...
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May 09, 2013 · A sample --and quite simple-- video of Vitastra's mirror making machine. This is a full-custom design first inspired on the polishing machines designed by Karl Zeiss, but then cross-inspired with the more modern overarm machines .
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 telescope mirror blank that I made myself.
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Where the 19th Century Art of Mirror Making Meets the 21st Century. The Saint Petersburg Mirror Lab is a small band of dedicated mirror grinders and telescope makers living in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. We offer a mirror making class for interested persons. We strive to create the best mirrors our home brew technology can muster.
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Mirror-o-Matic mirror making machine ATM pages of. Mirror-O-Matic grinding machine. When I decided in 2009 after a ten-year break to get into mirror making again, it quickly became clear to me that I would need to construct machine, as hand grinding big mirrors is not something very beneficial for the hands of a musician.
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Each optical surface is tested up to 29 times as it passes through its many processes of being turned from a blank piece of glass to a highly accurate figured mirror or lens. Below is our selection of Telescope Mirrors available to purchase and a brief description of each grade's qualities.
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Mirror-o-Matic mirror making machine ATM pages of. Mirror-O-Matic grinding machine. When I decided in 2009 after a ten-year break to get into mirror making again, it quickly became clear to me that I would need to construct machine, as hand grinding big mirrors is not something very beneficial for the hands of a musician.
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Strasbaugh polishing and grinding machine. You wont find very many of these around. Strasbaugh is the premier manufacture of machines used by the professionals. This machine is solid no plastic or wood. You can adjust the spindle and eccentric speed with a turn of a knob while running. It makes mirror grinding a pure joy.
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How I built an edge grinder for telescope mirror blanks. ... I borrowed a few ideas from the Mirror-O-Matic mirror grinding machine, particularly how to mount the turntable on top of the pulley. Anyone building machinery for cold-working glass should have a look at the MOM web site and plans. ... [Mike's telescope workshop] [Mike's home-built ...
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About our mirror suppliers. Obsession Telescopes feature primary mirrors made by two of the best established and most reputable optical companies serving the astronomy community today. Optical Mechanics Inc. (OMI) supplies Obsession with 12.5" to 25" aperture mirrors. Ostahowski Optics supplies Obsession with 15" to 22" aperture mirrors.
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Mirror Grinding Machine. My Mirror Grinding Machine. For a long time I've wanted to build a machine for grinding telescope mirrors. Dennis Rech's MoM designs finally inspired me to just get up and do it. Over the years, I'd been collecting motors, gear boxes, pulleys, etc.
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Grinding Machine for Large Telescope Mirrors. Grinding Machine for Large Telescope Mirrors. I designed and built a grinding machine for mirrors up to 42 inches [1.1m] in diameter. By slipping on and off a couple of belts, the machine can quickly be reconfigured for spinning work or for stroking work.
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Mirror grinding machine construction log ... get to far and put it aside for a while as I built several med sized dobsonian telescopes, A 15" for myself and a 16" for the NBANB. Both of these mirrors were bought, but I still wanted to grind one myself. I ordered an 8" kit from Willman-Bell but it .
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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 ...
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ToyerBee Telescope 76mm Aperture 700MM, with 3 Eyepieces H20mm H12.5mm H4mm&Tripod&Finder Scope&Moon Mirror, 70X-350X Magnification- Reflector Telescope for Kids& Students&Adults&Astronomy Beginners
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Oct 15, 2012 · Page 1 of 2 - Making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hey guys. Im thinking of making my own fixed post mirror grinding/polishing and curve generating machine. Ive got loads of questions regarding the design so Ill just start firing away Do I need an eccentric moving tool to be able to polish a mirror spherical?
GET PRICE >>There are many reasons for grinding your own mirror. Either you want a unusual size, or focal length, or to satisfy your curiosity, or to have the "pride of achievement" by fabricating something as precise as a telescope mirror.
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There are many reasons for grinding your own mirror. Either you want a unusual size, or focal length, or to satisfy your curiosity, or to have the "pride of achievement" by fabricating something as precise as a telescope mirror.
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Design plans for a Power Grinder for Telescope Mirrors. The machine automatically carries out the motions for grinding and polishing a 6" Telescope 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
used hand tools Telescopic Inspection Mirror, us . Telescopic Inspection MirrorTelescopic used once or twice boxed smoke free pet free my little boy has put stickers on it. strasbaugh professional mirror grinding and polishing machine with tools. telescope mirror . As new condition. Cost over 20 new . Kept in a Smoke pet free home!
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Centerless Grinding; Rotary Grinding ... TELESCOPE MIRROR BLANKS MADE TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS. If one of our standard telescope mirror blanks isn't exactly what you're looking for, Advanced Glass can custom make a telescope mirror blank to your specifications. ... AGI can diamond machine ID holes into your mirror blank ; AGI can produce ...
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Want to build your own telescope? Start with one of our telescope mirror kits. Each kit comes with a telescope mirror blank and all the abrasives (silicon carbide grits and white aluminum oxide powders), cerium oxide polish and pitch to grind and polish it to your specifications.
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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 ...
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Sep 26, 2006 · The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of .
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Please see the Buy Telescope Mirror Blanks page for low prices on plate glass mirror blanks. If you'd like to buy a complete mirror grinding KIT, with all abrasives and grinding tool included, please see the Buy Telescope Mirror Kits. website for the lowest prices on plate glass telescope mirror grinding kits.
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