For those who have NO idea what a Mirror-Matic is, it's an extra-cost option for Chrysler Products of the late 1950's through around 1961. It's a THICK rear-view mirror that sits on the dash. The head-unit contains simple …
Mirror grinding - scope making. A good starter size is the 150 mm (6") mirror. A 200mm (8") will also work. Most ATM books and websites recommend a Pyrex® mirror blank, but in my opinion, annealed plate glass is better for this first, "learn and practice" mirror.It is cheaper, it is softer and grinds faster, needing less abrasives and with these small sizes, the low expansion glass like …
Oct 02, 2005· Mirror-o-Matic and fixed position tool grinding - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I plan on using a Mirror-o-Matic type grinding machine soon. The fixed position technique Mark Cowan uses is one I’m very interested in. Mark has spoken about this to me and on this forum, as recently as today in the thread â ...
Mirror-o-Matic and fixed position tool grinding - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I plan on using a Mirror-o-Matic type grinding machine soon. …
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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Grinding Machines A Mirror-O-Matic Machine. 50 Inch telpe (1.3 meter telpe) at the Astronomical … The 1.3m telpe mirror blank has been completed by Peter Wangsness and is now at JP Astrocraft in Charleston, … 1.3-m Mirror Grinding Machine …
Grinding. On the picture below the machine is fine grinding an 8 inch mirror with an 71% tool (143 mm diameter) and 9 micron aluminium oxyde. The bent lines on the mirror are the effect of the tool turning - with respect to the …
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M-o-M used for parabolizing a 12" mirror. Figuring with the M-o-M. To use the M-o-M for figuring the motor block has to be inverted, so that the turntable turns slowly and the eccentric turns fast. One of the fantastic features of this …
Mirror grinding machine DIY Astronomer … 2005105 · I began work on the MirrorOMatic machine this weekend.'m building the one with the ...
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 …
Plastic protractor inserted under a 6 inch mirror blank during a stress test, to illustrate what stress would look like - if there were any present. All blanks test like this, or they don't ship. Mirror Blank Sizes : We provide mirror blanks …
I'd guess it cost about $500.00 after all the "little" things that add up. Now that I've built it I've realized that there are not many critical parts of the Mirror O Matic, and I could have saved a lot of money by eBaying / surplusing most …
Brought back memorys of being 17yrs old and hand polishing a 6" mirror for a friend took nearly a year before it was finished, he later made a Dob with it and i later had the chance to view with the telpe. Wonderfull observing deep sky objects i remember seeing M81 for the first time with that scope/mirror. Wax on Wax off as they say . James
I made the overarm from 1.25" steel tube, cut and fitted to size. Butt-welded, cleaned up with a grinder, painted and trial fit. It seems too low, but I will build sandwiched plywood layers, glued together and put everything up on that. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Mirror-O-Matic : This list is for discussion about the "Mirror-o-Matic" telpe mirror grinding machine, as developed by Dennis Rech. James. It seems that a long time ago I registered with Yahoo. I can't remember doing so, but worked it out when I tried to use my DP username and it said it was not available and it liked one of my (previously ...
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 …
Mirror Grinding Machine. My Mirror Grinding Machine. For a long time I've wanted to build a machine for grinding telpe mirrors. Dennis Rech's M-o-M designs finally inspired me to just get up and do it. Over the years, I'd been collecting motors, gear boxes, pulleys, etc. Most of them came from industrial junk yards.
mirror grinding machine for sale 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.
Grinding machine for mirrors up to 42 inches [1.1m] in diameter. Can be configured for spin or stroke work. ... 42 inch mirror with 21 inch radius, 80% stroke length = 17 inch stroke; 21 inch+17 inch=38 inch axes separation ...
F/4 means the focal length of the mirror is four times the diameter – just like on any camera. PS I have a mirror-o-matic grinding machine, they can be just as random as a human and don't need ...
For all of the rough an fine grinding the mirror-o-matic was setup to spin the turntable at 50 - 60rpm an the eccentric set to spin at about 7 - 10rpm. Most of the grinding process used a fixed overarm position with about a 1/4" overhang. After several hours using the polishing pads the micro scratches came out. ...
One way: do about 8 circular strokes. Then center the mirror on the tool. Turn the lower piece of glass to the left by about 15 degrees (1 hour on a normal clock face); then turn the upper piece of glass about 10 more degrees. Then grind away for 8 more circular strokes.
This list is for discussion about the "Mirror-o-Matic" telpe mirror grinding machine, as developed by Dennis Rech. Likely topics might be about construction and … Mirror grinding machine construction log – JamesCrombie page1
Location: Melbourne. Posts: 9. 24" Mirror Grinding and Polishing Machine. I started this thread to record my building progress of a new mirror grinding and polishing machine. This machine will be capable of handling mirror sizes up to 22". I have decided that 22" is the absolute maximum otherwise becomes too cumbersome to move around.
Mirror-o-Matic mirror grinding machine Index Introduction;, To setup for a grinding session I needed to provide the mirror mount to hold the mirror on the. grinding machine -alibaba - citiclubin This video shows how to setup a mirror grinding machine for fixed-post grinding, also known as: 52K Grinding Machine X - schooldemoorg Grinding Machin.
Jan van Gastel: Making a mirror-o-matic mirror making machine Grinding On the picture below the machine is fine grinding an 8 inch mirror with an 71% tool (143 mm diameter) and 9 micron aluminium oxyde The bent lines on the mirror are the effect of the tool turning - with respect to the mirror - faster at the central part of the mirror as ...
Page 1 of 2 - Mirror grinding machine-runout - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I am in the process of making a fixed post mirror grinding machine, big enough for a 20 inch mirror. I have now got the motor, pulleys, two shafts and turntable all together and working. The turntable rotates at around 25 rpm,which I think should be OK.