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Sean Cunneen
Let Me Think

Reged: 08/01/07

Loc: Blue Island Illinois

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: seryddwr]
#5589352 - 12/26/12 09:22 AM

Thanks Greg, that's more like it! I don't know how the rest can be in the creative spirit with out their junk around to inspire them!?

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BarabinoSr
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 11/17/05

Loc: Slidell La

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: seryddwr]
#5589369 - 12/26/12 09:42 AM

Great reports, everyone ! I was very excited to get a home that had the workshop already set up. There also is a door that leads from the shop to a covered patio and then to an outside driveway slab- a great place to set up scopes for observing! I'm in the final stages with one of my main scope projects. Thanks for posting! G

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Sean Cunneen
Let Me Think

Reged: 08/01/07

Loc: Blue Island Illinois

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: BarabinoSr]
#5589373 - 12/26/12 09:45 AM Attachment (50 downloads)

Here's mine, once built the scopes move to the garage. This is my small parts table. I have been doing a lot of restoring/reconditioning of late, so there are a lot of odds and ends.

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Sean Cunneen
Let Me Think

Reged: 08/01/07

Loc: Blue Island Illinois

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: Sean Cunneen]
#5589374 - 12/26/12 09:46 AM Attachment (36 downloads)

This table of junk is where the big scopes go when they are being worked on. On the right is my 8" classical cass and on the floor you may be able to pick out half of it's future mount!

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magic612
Post Laureate

Reged: 09/30/08

Loc: S. of Chicago's light dome

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: Sean Cunneen]
#5589446 - 12/26/12 10:34 AM

I've been there!

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KenScharf
member

Reged: 12/16/12

Loc: South Fla

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: magic612]
#5589609 - 12/26/12 12:08 PM

You guys up north with the basements are lucky (except when they flood). When we moved into our new house here in S. FL. we added on a room for my "ham shack" with enough extra room for overflow storage (mostly of my hobby junque). There is enough length to the room to test mirrors with 20' ROC (and I can make it dark enough), but I don't know how stable temperature wise it will be. I'm "into" other DIY activities such as wood working, and electronics. I'm now looking at setting up a small foundry for casting aluminum. I'll probably try casting parts for a mirror cell for the 7" plate glass mirror I've been making. I've tried running plop under Wine under Linux (it crashes now and then), and it looks like a 6 or 9 point cell will work fine for a 7" F7 19mm thick mirror.

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Project Galileo
professor emeritus

Reged: 11/14/07

Loc: Jefferson County, Colorado

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: KenScharf]
#5589767 - 12/26/12 01:37 PM

Here is my hideaway. I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.

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psi_chemie
sage

Reged: 05/01/11

Loc: Leawood, KS, USA

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: seryddwr]
#5600091 - 01/01/13 06:25 PM

Here is my mini machine shop for small projects.

Current projects include an off-axis F10 spherical 2.5" reflector, restoring a classic Edmund scope, creating a Dob mount for said Edmund scope.

I'm trying to figure out how to make my first newtonian focuser for the 2.5" at the moment. I made a really simple mirror cell with 3point adjustment so far.

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StarStuff1
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 04/01/07

Loc: South of the Mason-Dixon Line

Re: Post a Picture of Your ATM Workshop ! new

[Re: KenScharf]
#5600459 - 01/01/13 10:24 PM

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You guys up north with the basements are lucky (except when they flood). /quote]

I live in East Tennessee and never had a basement before. Can't imagine not having one now. FWIW I grew up in Louisiana where just a few people had basements. Only they were called indoor pools.

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