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Re: Doug Royer's Artificial Horizon
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 25, 14:56 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 25, 14:56 -0500
On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Royer, Doug wrote: > Bruce, > a little background on this 1st. Remember last year when you and > George gave me pointers on the 1st(square)one I made? I took both of > your inputs and made a triangular A.H. > I was experimenting making glass A.H.s that were square with 6-32 > machine screw level adjusters.That configuration was extremely > difficult to level out. > The black glass surface was extremely reflective.However,I found it > wasn't very robust as I cracked the glass at some point and the 3145 > RTV didn't like to hold the glass to the aluminum base.Scratch the > glass and back to the drawing board. > Doug, If you wished, couldn't you leave the plexiglass cut square or rectangular but only use three legs, one fixed and two adjustable? It would be more tipsy than a triangular piece, but might accommodate the levels more easily. Fred