Mirror-O-Matic grinding machine. When I decided in 2009 after a ten-year break to get into mirror making again, it quickly became clear to me that I would need to construct machine, as hand grinding big mirrors is not something very beneficial for the hands of a musician.
اقرأ أكثرOur intent is to provide a source for lower cost, mirror blanks, and supplies for grinding your own telpe mirror. If I had known as a kid how, well not easy, but indeed not as hard as I would have expected to grind my own mirror. I sure would have had a much nicer scope then. At present we have a supply of high quality Pyrex mirror blanks.
اقرأ أكثرAfter fine grinding is complete, the mirror must be polished. It is during polishing that you "figure" the mirror by using a different polishing stroke to change the mirror's spherical polished shape into a parabolic polished shape . See a related tutorial nearby titled, " Making A Mirror Polishing And Figuring Tool ".
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اقرأ أكثرWhile I was in the construction process of the Mirror-O-Matic I had ordered a 10" an 8" plate glass kit. Here is the 10" ready for fine grinding. The only part I could not find locally was the toggle pad used in the overarm assembly. This part I ordered from Reid Tool Supply Company. The 8" came at a later time then the 10".
اقرأ أكثرGrinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of lapping the blank by hand, Laurie Hall built this mirror grinding machine from scratch.
اقرأ أكثر31 Grinding the curve into the mirror face can be done by one of the following …
اقرأ أكثرMaking a telpe mirror. To start, a new mirror blank is "sanded" down to create a precise parabolic curve in a process called grinding. To do that, the blank is …
اقرأ أكثرMirror (8K) Polishing Machine Mirror Polishing Machine is used to polish Sheet or Plates of Stainless Steel up to Highly Reflective Mirror Effect. The surface receives a uniform and directionless gloss with a magnificent brilliance. After Grinded in Grinding Section, Sheets will feed into the polishing section.
اقرأ أكثرBenefits of using thin plate glass mirror blanks? There are several advantages to using thin plate glass mirror blanks for grinding your telpe mirror: * Thin mirror blanks are less expensive, allowing more people to afford the hobby of grinding their own telpe mirror. * Choosing a thin mirror blank gets you more aperture for your dollar.
اقرأ أكثرMy Mirror Grinding Machine. For a long time I've wanted to build a machine for grinding telpe mirrors. Dennis Rech's M-o-M designs finally inspired me to just get up and do it. Over the years, I'd been collecting motors, gear boxes, …
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اقرأ أكثرThe mirror ended up with a very smooth, zone free, nearly spherical figure ready for final figuring. Figure 1: Polishing pads applied to a 9 inch grinding tool. Another local ATM has also tried the polishing pads with abrasive and CeO. His own 17.5" mirror took about nine hours to polish out completely.
اقرأ أكثرI borrowed a few ideas from the Mirror-O-Matic mirror grinding machine, particularly how to mount the turntable on top of the pulley. Anyone building machinery for cold-working glass should have a look at the MOM web site and plans. There are lots of good ideas there.
اقرأ أكثرLeonardo's Mirror Grinding Machine. The mirror or lens grinding machine is a masterpiece of mechanical engineering. It has several gears in mesh at all times and also has several variable settings built into it. This machine was most likely designed by Leonardo while he was either investigating the different ways that light reflected off ...
اقرأ أكثرGeorge Willis Ritchey built this mirror grinding machine at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, in the late 1890s. Under the sponsorship of George Ellery Hale, the machine was used to grind a series of telpe mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telpe initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory.
اقرأ أكثرDescription: Orbital polishing machine type LPC 500 mirror has been designed, like the other two smaller versions, for straight and bent tube mirror polishing up to maximum diameter 203 mm.; this unit is equipped with liquid polishing paste dispenser and with inverter device for polishing . Applications / Materials Abraded: Ceramics / Glass; Driver Technology: Electric Motor / Vibrator
اقرأ أكثرHow to grind a mirror blank into the well-figured basis for a Dobsonian telpe. How to grind the glass, how to carry out a focus test, how to polish with ...
اقرأ أكثرBehind the Scenes at Mirror Polishing & Plating Company Inc. MPP Inc. is a complete, single-source roll fabricating, plating, grinding and surface finishing company known world-wide for excellence and reliability for over 60 years.
اقرأ أكثرRough Grinding . Once you have the back of the mirror ground flat through 220 and the face reasonably flat, you're ready to start roughing the curve into the mirror. I recommend #60 carborundum for rough grinding. By the way, as in all optical work, be sure that you always maintain bevel on the edge of the mirror throughout grinding.
اقرأ أكثرWelcome to my channel - in this video, we will begin to make a telpe mirror from scratch! I'll be showing you the basics of telpe mirror grinding!Her...
اقرأ أكثر200. Report. Deva answered 3 years ago. My car model and year of 2012 and model i20 it was same issue on left side mirror grinding sound. Not responding properly, it is electronic issue or electrical contact issue not sure. Continuously sounds coming wire disconnected, otherwise battery down. I think will answer this question.
اقرأ أكثرMirror grinding machine construction log ... Mirror seems to be almost finished, maybe an 1/8" of pits showing up with the laser pointer. My buddy Garth Arsenault brought up his tester and gave me a quick course in its use. Aug 25, 2003 I was a …
اقرأ أكثرThe mirror machine came to me as a result of astronomical horse-trading, swapping a large GEM mount and a 8" Newtonian OTA for the machine as it was and a start kit consisting of two 6" blanks and the grit, rouge and pitch to manufacture a mirror. The grinding machine had been built to the design of the mirror-o-matic design of Dennis Rech ...
اقرأ أكثرWe continue to practice polishing the mirror and grinding the stone until the mirror of our spirit is a perfect reflection of true self and the surface of the stone is as smooth as the mirror. We are in harmony with ourselves and our environment. So don't be upset if the techniques are hard and fast, or slow and exact.
اقرأ أكثرHere is a stack of my home-made 8 and 10 inch mirror blanks. The second from the bottom is the one above. I can use the thinner blank below it as the grinding tool. UPDATE I have started rough grinding one of my home-made 10in glass blanks. Here is an action shot of me, pushin' glass. I am aiming for an f/5 mirror.
اقرأ أكثرMirror grinding and figuring consists of four major steps (plus aluminizing). Rough and Fine grinding use hard tools (glass, tile or metal) and harder then glass abrasive grit (Silicon Carbide or Aluminum Oxide). Polishing and Figuring use a soft pitch tool and ultra fine abrasive (Cerium Oxide or Rouge).
اقرأ أكثرWant to build your own telpe? Start with one of our telpe mirror kits. Each kit comes with a telpe mirror blank and all the abrasives (silicon carbide grits and white aluminum oxide powders), cerium oxide polish and pitch to grind and polish it to your specifications. Please note that our kits do not include a grinding tool or pitch ...
اقرأ أكثرThe mirror-grinding was conducted as follows, regardless of whether the substrate was rotated or fixed. When the grinding wheel first touched the surface of diamond specimen, the spindle position was maintained without application of any feeding for several minutes (zero-position grinding). The grinding wheel was then fed at a certain rate up ...
اقرأ أكثرAdd the usual half teaspoon of grit, sprinkle with water and grind for a couple of minutes, rotating tool and mirror often. Rinse the mirror and inspect the grid lines. If the grid is worn out evenly, you are doing fine. If you grinded with TOT, the …
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