I once drove three and a half hours only to find that I had left my entire scope behind. I quickly polished a new mirror out of a discarded bottle of gin, and carved a new scope out of an old railroad tie using nothing more than a plastic spoon. The scope really sucked, but at least I still had a good chair to sit on!
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Dick Flasck wrote:
At 8:15pm I began boring holes with the Uncle Henry pocketknife in the plywood seat of my StarMaster chair / stepstool (recommended to me by Ray Cash several years ago). A couple of pieces of ABS plastic (normally used as shims to level the equatorial platform) were screwed to the seat as my "teflon" pads. The center pivot was a 3/8" bolt I found in the bottom of my eyepiece box. The bolt was brought to the larger necessary diameter by applying several wraps of electrical tape David happened to have. Three suitable rocks were found around the gravel parking lot, and placed directly between the ground and the back of the seat / ground board, directly under the ABS pads (which were, of course, on the upper side of the seat / ground board). Ugly....... really ugly.
Received on Sun Jul 25 10:20:47 2004