Telescope Making 2

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hobby. The glass casting oven is a oven made from scratch where it is able to make up to a 20′ mirror blank. Diamond Curve Generating Machine/Mirror grinding & polishing- Own personal design/invention, uses a roller coaster, where the diamond grinder rides the curve track. Able to do any curve of radius(negative or positive) because of the spring steel track design. Able to grind/polish up to a 32′ mirror. 40′ Vacuum Tank. The mirror sits vertical, attaching itself to the door with an …

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3 Responses to “Telescope Making 2”

  1. Comment by xFrogsharkx

    Diffusion pump only.

  2. Comment by ElementalPeace

    Great Job!
    Question:
    Are you planning to incorporate both the Diffusion Pump & the Turbo-Molecular Pump into the Vacuum Chamber simultaneously? Thx

  3. Comment by togaida

    Man! This a well equipped telescope making garage…A GARAGE…I thought filling a garage with machine shop tools was a dream, this…this is a wet dream! (sorry couldn’t help myself) with all the [sophisticated] homemade equipment you have there, I don’t see machine shop tools (lathe, Milling machines and so forth, and you can’t say you d wouldn’t know how to use it because…well, I don’t want to alram you, but dude, you built a telescope making shop…you can learn to machine…easily….lol

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