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Woodware: Mirror Grinding Stand

Now days it is easer to buy finished mirrors than grinding kits to make them. Still grinding your own mirror is a key skill that makes you a real telescope maker. To grind a telescope mirror by hand you simply attach a glass tool the same size as your mirror blank to the top of a small, strong stand.

Grind and Polish a Dobsonian/Newtonian Telescope Mirror ...

Grind and Polish a Dobsonian/Newtonian Telescope Mirror With Hand Tools: Author's note: This Instructable was written and published by our Making and Tinkering Programs Manager, who's personal Instructable account we co-opted. He is now publishing personal Instructables over at member ID MechaNickW.Making a telescope abo…

Joy of Mirror Making: Introduction - BBAstroDesigns

Grinding a 6 inch [15cm] mirror to F/2.8 using a ring tool. Mirror Making Zen. Do one thing at a time. Mirror making is a process: 1. Get blank, grit, pitch 2. Roughly grind a curve in the mirror face 3. Refine the curve with diminishing grit sizes 4. Polish the mirror face 5. …

ATM Supplies, Sites and Links – Astro Khan Telescope Making

Ready Mirrors, Mirror Grinding Kits, Eyepieces, Secondary & Other Accessories. Tejraj & Company – Tejraj is well known for supplying telescope, optics and related accessories in India. I buy my secondary mirror and few astro eyepieces from them. You can also buy the GSO primary mirrors from them if you don't want to grind your own mirror.

Internal Tube: Weld Removal Kits – Grind, Finish ...

Grinding & removing internal welds to a P340 finish (KIT/TUBE/PHA/) Grinding & removing internal welds to a mirror polished finish to the pipe (KIT/TUBE/MIR/) n.b. Do not confuse the new ceramic flap wheels with the traditional abrasive flap wheels. The new Cibo Ceramics will remove the weld consistently and quickly. Internal Tube Grinding Process

"Astronomy" Telescopes, Dobsonian Kits, Telescope Mirrors ...

Telescope mirrors, equipment for astro photography, focusers and spiders, star diagonals for dobsonians. Optics special offers. Dobsonian telescope component kits for parts and Dobson accessories, diagonal secondary elliptical mirrors, holders, cells for …

Buy mirror blanks for telescope making - Grind Your Own ...

10 Inch Mirror Blanks, 3/4" Thick: $55 + S&H (16);Shipping prices are to the USA - not shipping outside the US, sorryCombined shipping is possible - Write. For a complete mirror making KIT, with all abrasives, polishing compounds, pitch, and grinding tool …

Stellafane ATM: Grits, Polish & Pitch

For hand grinding, the coarse grit sequence of 40, 60, 80, 120, 220 is typical (start at the grit size appropriate for your mirror diameter as given in the section above). Silicon Carbide is used almost exclusively. Fine grit sequences vary more, and are often adjusted based on the supplies at hand.

8 Inch Telescope Mirror Kit - Firsthand Discovery

Save money and time by purchasing a telescope mirror kit. This kit includes an 8 inch telescope mirror blank, all the silicon carbide grits, white aluminum oxide powders, gugolz pitch, and cerium oxide polish you will need to grind and polish an 8 inch telescope mirror all bundled in one spot. This will get you on a great start to building your own telescope.

Joy of Mirror Making: Rough Grinding - BBAstroDesigns

Rough Grinding The first milestone is putting a curve into the mirror face. The curve's depth dictates the mirror's focal length. The curve should be spherical. Creating the curve can be done by several methods: The curve is ground into the mirror face using a grinding tool. The curve is pre-generated for you.

Telescope Mirror Kits - Firsthand Discovery

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. Please note that our kits do not include a grinding tool or pitch lap. If you need materials for making a grinding tool or pitch lap, we have ...

King Telescopes, telescope mirror blanks, using both ...

Our intent is to provide a source for lower cost, mirror blanks, and supplies for grinding your own telescope mirror. If I had known as a kid how, well not easy, but indeed not as hard as I would have expected to grind my own mirror. I sure would have had a much nicer scope then. At present we have a supply of high quality Pyrex mirror blanks.

Homemade Telescope Making - Google Search

Unfortunately, the cost of mirror grinding kits and pyrex blanks has increased significantly in recent years to the point where any savings from making a mirror versus buying one are minimal at best. Yet, the larger the mirror you make the more money you can save when compared to buying a mirror already made. And before buying a kit, surf the ...

MAKE YOUR OWN TELESCOPE KITS – Sharp Vision Telescopes

The standard kit includes all the finished optical components needed to build a Newtonian reflecting telescope; namely, the primary concave mirror, the secondary flat mirror, two eyepieces of 25mm and 12.5mm focal lengths, one Barlow lens that increase the power of any of the eyepieces from 1.5x to 4x times, a 25mm diameter objective lens and ...

My local astronomy club doesn't seem to want me to grind ...

Grinding your own mirror isn't rocket science (it just takes a long time). I say you do it. It's not like your attempting a 16" for your first time. I'm doing an 8" for the first time and I can tell a 10 wouldn't be different. Though I do understand how 12+ could start to be different. I …

Got Grit

2020 What a Year! YES We are OPEN! If you need something FAST please call me. We are also on FaceBook as GotGrit1. We try to ship most orders within 1-2 days, the default shipping is 2-3 day USPS. If you want another shipping method select SHIPPING QUOTE at checkout. I started doing this because of the high cost of small quantities of Grit and ...

Mirror grinding - scope making

One as the mirror, and the other as the tool. If you have such a kit, save the second glass, and make a tile tool. Tile tools grind faster, and you can make 2 mirrors instead of one. Or you can share the costs of a mirror kit with a friend and make a mirror each.

Zambuto Optical Company - Newtonian Telescope Mirrors

Zambuto Optical Company is a full service custom manufacturer of premium Newtonian primary telescope mirrors from 7" through 24" diameter. Special Notice-We want to let our customers know that during this timeframe we continue to do business as usual. There may be delays with regard to shipments due to outside circumstances beyond our control ...

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mirror grinding kit suppliers. Popular Searches. Angel Gilding Know More. Our family business is dedicated to demystifying mirrors We offer you the supplies tools and techniques you need to make a mirrored surface on glass or plastic using silver gold copper or galena We are committed to sharing our knowledge to enable you to realize your ...

Telescope Products & Services - Galvoptics

Telescope Products & Services. We offer a range of products and services for the ameteur telescope enthusiast such as grinding powders, polishing powders /compounds, telescope aluminising services. We offer a Telescope mirror re coating service for both Primary and Secondary telescope mirrors. We also offer a recoating service for Sextant mirrors.

How I make Telescope Mirror Blanks

Here is a stack of my home-made 8 and 10 inch mirror blanks. The second from the bottom is the one above. I can use the thinner blank below it as the grinding tool. UPDATE I have started rough grinding one of my home-made 10in glass blanks. Here is an action shot of …

Stellafane ATM Main Page

Much is also unchanged - mirror grinding techniques are very similar to those written up by Porter and Ingalls in the 20´s and 30´s. Many amateur astronomers still choose to fabricate their own instruments, for the pride of accomplishment, the gaining of knowledge and the insurance of quality.

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Telescope Mirror Kits Firsthand Discovery. 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 Please note that our kits do not include a grinding tool or pitch lap If you need materials for making a ...

Build your own telescope part 1: The mirror – Thomas ...

Rough grinding. This step is about making one side of the glass concave. It will give your mirror its overall focal ratio. If you make the centre deep, you will end up with a fast telescope (e.g. F/D = 4) well suited for deep sky observations. On the opposite, a shallow mirror (e.g. F/D = 8) will be performing very well on planets and the moon.

Grinding an 8″ F/10 Telescope Mirror – gordtulloch.com

For this project (my first time ever grinding a mirror) I ordered an 8″ Black Vitrified Ceramic (BVC) blank without a pregenerated curve from ASM Products in Ste-Basile PQ. Ordering from Canada is always cheaper once you factor in all the taxes – all told the kit cost about $185. It includes Aluminum Oxide grits in 46, 80, 100, 240, 500 ...

Telescope Mirror Blanks / TelescopeMirrorBlanks.Com ...

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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Grinding Inside The Mirror – Dragon Tea

It doesn't matter, I have a mirror, as long as it shines on you, whether you are a human or a beast, whether you are dead or alive, all will be projected. What kind of skills and martial arts,all kind of treasures, weapons and items and even talents and aptitudes will be dropped for you! Ding!