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Re: Sextant telescope
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Dec 3, 10:34 -0800
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Dec 3, 10:34 -0800
Gary,
The third photo linked to my post 14595 shows a telescope body set up on a lathe, with the tool about to traverse to take a truing-up skim of the outside of the parallel portion of the body. If I were doing it, I would then glue the new rising piece on with an industrial adhesive, as there probably isn't quite enough wall thickness to allow an external thread to be cut.
Bill
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