JamesE
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Reged: 10/22/07
Posts: 1117
Loc: Westbank, BC, Canada
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Hi All,
Was just talking with Brian and he was asking me if I have Macgyver'd anything lately. I laughed knowing full well, what he was talking about. If you don't know who Macgyver is, here is a link to the show
http://www.tv.com/macgyver/show/7
Anyways, so that inspired me to start an open post about what you have done that was Macgyver'ish on your scope. I'll start........
Fine focus knob for C14 - PINK Telflon tape container, wrapped in hooked Velcro, compression fitted, over focus knob. Works like a charm.
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James
(Thanks to Attilla for the Clear Sky charts)
Current Projects : Tasco 15TEA - 3 inch pier mounted planetary scope
Priorities : Wife, Kids
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grendel
sage
Reged: 04/12/09
Posts: 248
Loc: Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Well my scope has a slow motion focuser made from the gearbox of an electric screwdriver.
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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WOW! Peter that is a "Macgyver" if i ever saw one. VERY VERY COOL!  Mine is more an ATM but i received a few welding rods in the mail in a postal cylinder and MacGyver'd it into a 60mm finder scope. I never was much of a MacGyver fan i liked the "A"-team.
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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covered it in Carbon Fiber and added a visual back made from plywood using a drill press, and drilled a .965" hole for a classics diagonal.
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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front
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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The only Macgyver thing about it is using the classic .965" diagonal and maybe even MacGyver would have kept the postal lid for a lens cap, but it is more of an "A"-Team build.  "I PITY DA FOOL dat don't like my finda scope"
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 372
Loc: Alaska, USA
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 hey Brian ..  What is the lense and does that look like valve packing holding lense in  Up here we call that "doing it the homestead way" john
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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No valve packing Homesteader It is thin ply covered in CF. it was a task cutting it on the drill press but i managed to keep both eyes and all ten fingers. I counted them twice just to make sure. 
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 372
Loc: Alaska, USA
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 You did good , because the trick too life is getting thru it with all fingers/toes/eyes  hard too be an astronomer without your seeing eye dog  john
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dougspeterson
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Reged: 09/01/04
Posts: 1041
Loc: Murrieta, CA
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I was inspired by the Macgyver episode where he used a handheld second-surface makeup mirror to divert the deathbeam from a super laser.
That was actually cooler than the Mission Impossible episode where our hero looked thru a telescope at the picture on a TV set in order to see details in a video scene heretofore unknown!
Right then and there I decided to become an optical engineer.
Edited by dougspeterson (10/17/09 05:44 PM)
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2835
Loc: 3rd Rock
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Peter can you post more pictures and a detailed description? I am intrigued with your device.
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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grendel
sage
Reged: 04/12/09
Posts: 248
Loc: Canterbury, Kent, UK
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I used to have it on a geocities website, but they shut them down, hang on a bit and I'll see what I can do.
Grendel
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grendel
sage
Reged: 04/12/09
Posts: 248
Loc: Canterbury, Kent, UK
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I have started a new thread in the ATM section:-
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=3396141&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=all&fpart=1&vc=#Post3396141
Grendel
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wfj
sage
Reged: 01/10/08
Posts: 259
Loc: California, Santa Cruz County
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Well a mount from a coffee can, mirror figure spherical to parabolic via microflex, and coma corrected EP out of PVC using lenses from multiple broken EP's to create a RFT from a broken DS 2114 short tube that was abandoned.
Is that enough?
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1458
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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I'm still trying to find an application for the "diamond elixir" used in an episode of the original Wild Wild West to slow down time.
Come to think of it, that show was full of all kinds of gadgets that would be cool for ATMing Steampunk creations, from 4 decades before the term was first coined!
Probably the subject for another thread, though...
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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