This blog contains photos, descriptions and comments about our telescopes. Please take a minute to make comments. Make suggestions and feel free to email me at densteele@dobstuff.com any time -- Dennis K6KRV (densteele@dobstuff.com)
Saturday, December 8, 2012
I'm making good progress on a 16" F4.5 truss telescope for Andrew in Encino. It's a rebuild of a Meade Lightbridge. I'm using the Meade mirror and mirror cell, secondary and spider and focuser. One interesting feature of this truss telescope is the "single top ring". It makes for a light but very sturdy assembly. There is no NO flex what-so-ever and the laser collimator "dot" stays right in the middle of the mirror
More to follow
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