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  • Telpe Mirror Grinding Machine | Crusher Mills, Cone ...

    Fine Grinding a 20" Quartz Telpe Mirror. Rough Grinding on the Fixed-Post Mirror Grinding Machine. Hogging the Curve on a 20" f/4.5 Quartz Telpe Mirror. SkyBadger – Mirror Grinding Machine. ... Stellafane ATM: Materials & Tools.

  • Telpe Mirror Grinding Machines | Crusher Mills, Cone ...

    Having been on the ATM list now since … Mirror Grinding Machine, G. W. Ritchey | Flickr – Photo Sharing! … grind a series of telpe mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telpe initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory.

  • Optics: Spider and Secondary Mount | Telpe Building

    Optics: Spider and Secondary Mount. The spider and secondary mount began straight from the stellafane site but evolved as I chatted with my expert advisors. The mirror is mounted to a length of dowel. A bolt runs up the dowel and out and through a hub that is a milled cube of aluminum. The corners were milled out of the cube; so that from above ...

  • Stellafane ATM: Fine Grinding

    in the 2001-02 Stellafane Mirror Class. Fine grinding refines the basic shape you have ground into the surface of the glass with rough grinding. The sequence of ever finer grits that you use smoothes the rough surface that was made in rough grinding, and prepares you for polishing.

  • Stellafane ATM: Polishing

    Stellafane ATM: Grits, Polish & Pitch

  • Where to buy mirror blanks? Stellafane links are half dead ...

    Stellafane links are half dead. - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Half the links on stellafane are dead. ... Or do you want to avoid the grunt work and skip to fine grinding the curve to a good sphere? Edited by stargazer193857, 13 September 2020 - 02:47 PM. Back to top #11 ppg677 ppg677. Ranger 4 ...

  • TESTING/CORRECTIONS – Astro Khan Telpe Making

    Purpose of this section is to show how to achieve the nice spherical surface free of any defect and zonal irregularities before moving to figuring or prabolization. It is a very important and critical activity. If you have been good in your fine grinding and polishing strokes, you will end up with a nice spherical…

  • How to hold convex mirror blank for grinding? - Page 2 ...

    Page 2 of 2 - How to hold convex mirror blank for grinding? - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Considering I dont have another glass blank for a 6 tool, would you suggest just making a flat tile tool and skip the hogging step on my 6 mirror? I feel like the 10 mirror might just be an opportunity to mess with the grinding process and gain some more …

  • The Zucchi-JTK3 (2013-2015) | Telpe Building

    My second telpe-making project is this 12.5" - f/6 Newtonian. A diary of the project from my acquisition of a mirror blank in summer 2013 to first light in early 2015 can be found in the following pages. First light was 11 April 2015 on campus in Washington, DC. Two introductory points: the one on…

  • Looking for advice for building Foucault tester - ATM ...

    Looking for advice for building Foucault tester - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hello all, First time poster here. Im very excited to be working on my first telpe mirror, a 6 f/8. Really enjoying the process. I am currently progressing through fine grinding and as I get close to the polishing stage Im looking to build a Foucault tester.

  • Pin on Out of Sight - Pinterest

    Oct 6, 2017 - How to Make Your Own Telpe Mirror: [Fig 1] This is a large piece of glass a woman off Craigslist gave me. It was 40"x40" and 0.75" thick. Its what I decided to use to make the mirror. Cutting it into smaller sections can be difficult but scoring it with a glass cutter …

  • Pin on Telpe Makers

    Stellafane ATM Main Page. Stellafane, Home of the Springfield Telpe Makers Inc., Springfield, Vermont, USA, Amatuer Telpe Making. Matthew Mollgaard. Wizard. Telpe Craft. Hubble Space Telpe. ... Grinding a 25-Inch F3 Telpe Mirror: Thinning and Flattening the Back.

  • Istonecrusher Org Grinding

    Grinding production line. Powder grinding production line is widely used for making powders in the industries of mine, power plant, chemistry, building material, metallurgy, refractory, desulfuration in power station, pitch mixing station and highway and the granularity of the final products can be adjusted in the range of 20-3250 Mesh.

  • Joy of Mirror Making: Introduction - BBAstroDesigns

    Fine grinding. A series of ever smaller grits are employed in order to repair the damage caused by rough grinding, concluding with aluminum oxide which leaves much smaller pits and fewer fractures compared to the silicon carbide. This stage is called fine grinding.

  • Cherry Lap Grind Stone

    Stellafane ATM: Materials & Tools. The Tools: Grinding & Polishing. You will need two tools: A hard tool for rough and fine grinding, and a soft tool, or pitch lap, for polishing and figuring. Traditionally, the pitch lap was made on top of the grinding tool. We recommend using plaster disks for tool …

  • Pin on Telpe Makers

    Introduction to grinding polishing and parabolizing a telpe mirror. Perry Moon. Telpe Making & Amateur Astronomy. Cosmos. Diy Telpe. Radio Astronomy. Earth Two. Curiosity Rover. Stargazing. Outer Space. Science Nature. Really Cool Stuff. Stellafane ATM Main Page. Stellafane, Home of the Springfield Telpe Makers Inc., Springfield ...

  • Wooden Telpe Part 1: the Mirror : 14 Steps (with ...

    Step 6: Measure the Sagitta. Continue grinding until you get the desired curvature. To estimate the curvature, we will use a dial indicator to measure the sagitta. If you want to build a telpe for planets and moon observation, you will need a longer focal ratio (F/8 or …

  • Fine Grinding In Feeds

    Stellafane ATM: Fine Grinding. Fine grinding refines the basic shape you have ground into the surface of the glass with rough grinding. The sequence of ever finer grits that you use smoothes the rough surface that was made in rough grinding, and prepares you for polishing. You are also refining the shape of the surface to be a section of a ...

  • Mirror-Making Workshop - Texas Star Party

    Fine grinding: includes Fine grinding, Measuring Sagitta; Polishing: Foucault Testing; Ronchi testing; Spectators are welcome to look and listen, but please don't touch anything unless invited by one of our instructors. Let's Get Started! The Stellafane Telpe Makers have a great website that will help you get started! Overview of Mirror ...

  • Stellafane ATM Main Page

    For rough grinding a 6" mirror, about 1/2 teaspoon of grit is used per wet. With finer grits, proportionately less grit is used per wet. Grits in the25 micron range are often premixed with water to form a slurry, and water and grit are squirted onto the work together from a plastic squeeze bottle (not a spray bottle). Sprinkle on Grit

  • Dobsonian Mount | Telpe Building

    Dobsonian Mount. In making the mount, I by and large followed the instructions on the Stellafane site. Where I diverged most was in the so-called tube cradle, which I replaced with my adjustable curtain-track trunnion system. To build the mount I purchased (my major wood outlay) a piece of ¾" red oak plywood, which because of a ...

  • "Pregenerated" and Secondary Mirror Questions - ATM ...

    "Pregenerated" and Secondary Mirror Questions - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hello all! I have just recieved a mirror blank and a focuser (thanks Augustus!), however I have a couple of questions. First, the mirror is a 6 and it is pregenerated to F/8 My question is does this change anything about the mirror in the first place? Im aware that I have to grind and …

  • Parabolizing 2 | Telpe Building

    Parabolizing 2. 2014 October 01. The question is whether to continue figuring the mirror or to be happy with what I have. A strategy: to do a star test. In September we attempted to get a tumble-down jig up to speed. Even though we got the pieces of the jig together, the streetlights around the community center reflect too brightly off the ...

  • Stellafane Links Page

    A large list of links to other web sites we hope you will find useful. We try to list sites that complement or augment the information on our site. The inclusion of an off-site li

  • Telpe Building | Pushing Glass and Sawing Wood

    From mid-November 2012 to mid-April 2013 I constructed a telpe from scratch … from grinding the mirror to building the tube. This site was initially conceived for family and friends to keep track of my progress. Early on I began to think the site could be helpful (and encouraging) for aspiring hobbyists. The telpe was a six-inch f/7.73…

  • Stellafane Mirror Makers - Posts | Facebook

    Stellafane Mirror Makers. December 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM · ·. Mirror class student Keith putting the final correction into his 6" parabola on 12/13. He began this project in 1994 but put it aside as life happened. Keith is an award winning lecturer at a local college.

  • Mirror grinding | Diy telpe, Refracting telpe ...

    Astronomy. Grinding a 25-Inch F3 Telpe Mirror: Thinning and Flattening the Back. Gordon started with a 2" thick telpe mirror that weighed about 70 pounds. By thinning the blank, he's lightened the mirror by about 20 pounds!

  • Telpe Making Links - Designs and Techniques | STAR ...

    The Kutter Schiefspiegler. Yolo Telpes. Grinding Glass. An ATM's Grinding Barrel Top. Grinding Your Telpe Mirror. Polishing Your Telpe Mirror. Glass Notes. Grit and Microgrit Grading Conversion Chart at READE. Making a tile on plaster tool.

  • how to get silica grind micron

    This vertical-oriented jet milling system enables us to offer combined operations such as toll grinding / toll blending and toll grinding / coating. Capable of ultra-fine grinding dry powders to 0.5-45-micron averages, our Micro-Jet horizontally oriented jet mill generates a maximum amount of "fines," for customers who require high surface ...

  • Parabolizing 1 | Telpe Building

    Parabolizing 1. 03.06.2014. I used the parabolization stroke for thirty-five minutes and moved from strong spheroidicity to 2/5 wave. 06.06.2014. I continued with parabolizing strokes. Some turned down edge led to some tightening of the amplitude of the strokes. Then a hole in the center led to even more of a tightened amplitude, but with full ...

  • POLISHING – Astro Khan Telpe Making

    Once the fine grinding with the finest abrasive is done, next step is polishing. Many people won't believe if you show them the ground mirror and tell them that it will be polished to a mirror finish. OK, you need following to start the polishing… Pitch Lap (follow the link to see how the pitch lap was made) Polishing Mix (cerium oxide)

  • Getting started on my 6" mirror blank - ATM, Optics and ...

    Page 1 of 9 - Getting started on my 6" mirror blank - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Years ago I began grinding a 6 mirror blank with the Stellafane Telpe Makers in Springfield VT. I lived in Southern CT and worked as a planetarium supervisor so my attention got stretched thin and the mirror was one of the first things to drop. My wife and I moved to Seattle …

  • GRINDING – Astro Khan Telpe Making

    Please follow the this link from stellafane to learn and do it correctly. There are 2 major steps in grinding process. Rough Grinding – You start with courser abrasive like Silicon carbide #60 or #80 grit to hollow out the mirror quickly and move to the medium ones i.e. #120, #180, #220, #320 etc to smooth out the curve.