Hoping that I'll be able to construct the rings and spacers on Monday.
Construction of a 14" Dobsonian telescope from an AstroSystems Telekit.
Work area & cage
August 12, 2007
Not a lazy Sunday! Spent most of the day cleaning and rearranging the garage to make a decent work area and work surface. Problem is, the garage is pretty small (it will squeeze in two compact cars) and is in use for my wife's painting assemblage, my two motorcycles, and lots of hand and power tools. But I think this arrangement will work well.
By about 5pm, I collected all the Telekit part boxes and moved them into the garage. I'm thinking I'll follow the construction order in the manual. The cage has all the essential requirments for the construction but in small bites (sanding, glueing, alignment, etc).
The cage parts got sanded to 220 grit by about 7pm and then it was time to quit. I'll be using just hand sanding on everything because it's so easy to wear though plywood veneers with a power sander. As it is, hand sanding a part takes very few strokes (maybe 10 or so) and you can make the strokes parallel to the grain.
Hoping that I'll be able to construct the rings and spacers on Monday.
Hoping that I'll be able to construct the rings and spacers on Monday.
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