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wojo
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Reged: 09/28/07
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Re: home made collimating sight tube
      07/03/08 08:31 PM

JOHN...... If you are looking for how to locate the position for the cross hairs, heres how I do it. Take a index card that will wrap around the tube ,carefully align edge of paper with edge of tube, cut paper so ends meet, in other words, 1 wrap around tube . Fold in half , fold halves in half. re wrap around tube and mark tube at folds. The fussier you are about getting it accurate the better. Once you have your cross hairs in place you can test your work by inserting tube in focuser and rotating it 1/4 turn at a time, if intersection of cross hairs stay in same place you have a winner! ..... HOPE this is what your looking for.... WOJO

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* home made collimating sight tube jstephany 05/10/08 12:21 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Mirzam   05/10/08 12:40 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube okiestarman56   05/10/08 05:14 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube wojo   05/10/08 08:11 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Darenwh   05/10/08 08:31 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube jstephany   05/11/08 05:17 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube jstephany   05/11/08 05:34 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube David L   05/11/08 09:36 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube okiestarman56   05/11/08 11:20 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Show-me   07/03/08 12:59 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube wojo   07/03/08 08:31 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube tjmck   07/03/08 10:28 PM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Tom Andrews   07/05/08 01:56 AM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Tom Andrews   07/05/08 01:58 AM
. * Re: home made collimating sight tube Biff   07/05/08 02:35 PM

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