[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] Friday at Medoc, jan 4th

[Tony Garcia]

Yeah i hear you there, I left probably 50% of the dust on the mirror.  I
used a big squeeze toy like camera blower to get the big stuff off which is
great.  There were a couple of large "objects" that have been driving me
nuts for months, a couple of millimeter sized lint bits and one seemed to
be a bit of plastic.

Cleaning out/blowing the inside of the tube was especially great, very
satisfying to get dust and debris out before it landed on the mirror.  The
inside coating or texture of the tube(levy mak-newt) has a light baffling
quality which also makes it a bit of a dust catcher(good).  The mirror
clearly has a coating of some kind ( light reflection?) so I'm attempting
to avoid cleaning it with anything more than air.

speaking of scope maintenance and non-normal - I am becoming a believer in
star drive style screws.  It seems to me that small hex/allen wrench style
screws or phillips, tend to strip too easily.  But the star drive heads
never strip ( good edge grip ).

 if one was building something small, it's something to consider.
Especially if the screw threads (probably) are the same as you would get
when using a tapping tool to make your own threaded hole.  Probably just a
matter of hole diameter - not threads.  But also not something I've fooled
with yet.

Now that I've said all this I'm consider tapping some holes into my dew
shield for adding screws to hold it on.  Right now it just uses friction
which doesn't work well.  That or bridge it with velcro.



On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM, E. Allen Davis <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com
> wrote:

> I like how you said "normal" person because i don't fall in that category.
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> so be it!  haha.
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> But i have gradually learned over the years to not worry about some
> dust...it was a hard lesson.
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> stay in touch and hope to see you Friday.  allen
>
> E. Allen Davis
>  starstorm151 at embarqmail.com
>
>  "M'Illumino              "I am enlightened
>  D'Immenso"              by the immensity."
>
>    -Ungaretti               -Ungaretti
>
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> If the weather holds I am definitely interested, provided I can get my
> telescope ready. I have been tuning it up over xmas.
>
> I discovered that one of the adjustment screws on my focuser is frozen.  I
> am letting it soak with some WD40 etc.  and will give it another try later
> this week.
>
> Also took off the mirror and carefully dusted it with air ( it needed it
> after a couple of years! )    Blowing the inside of the telescope out was a
> worthy thing, lots of lint and dust in there - well, optically speaking.  A
> normal person would have called it pretty clean.
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> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Keegan Morrison <keegster at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> If the weather holds I can come down.
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>>  On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM, E. Allen Davis <
>> starstorm151 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert and I have emailed each other and we are planning to go to Medoc
>>> this Friday.  i am going to try to get there before gate close at 600pm.  I
>>> will probably call the park just in case.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Weather Friday looks good still,,, clear and cold....there will be a
>>> fire.  This time of year, we get to make full use of the facilities at
>>> Medoc including that great fireplace.  ( I really wonder sometimes what the
>>> pile of wood would look like if i could see what's gone up the chimney at
>>> Medoc over the last twenty years.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> anyway, please email if you think you might come.  a great way to kick
>>> off the new year.  Jim, Jason, and I sent 2012 out with a short but
>>> memorable observing session Sunday night....looking forward to much more
>>> this year.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Join us Friday! allen
>>>
>>>
>>> E. Allen Davis
>>>  starstorm151 at embarqmail.com
>>>
>>>  "M'Illumino              "I am enlightened
>>>  D'Immenso"              by the immensity."
>>>
>>>    -Ungaretti               -Ungaretti
>>>
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>> --
>> ~Keegan Morrison
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