Re: ATM Schmidt Camera Question!

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:15:01 GMT, Ed Majden <epmajden@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Chris:
> Finding a commercial shop in this small city with that expertise would
>be difficult. I sent the message below to a hobby machinist friend of mine.
>Maybe we can come up with something ourselves. He has a Myford ML-7 lathe
>and I have a smaller Unimat! For just pretty pictures I'm not sure it has
>to be all that accurate??? I can't see Celestron being all that finicky but
>I could be wrong. They say the holders are matched to the Camera. Maybe,
>the reason for the original cost of one of these! The template idea could
>produce an approximate curved surface I would think.
>Any comments?
>Ed

How about cutting a concave mold and casting the convex part in epoxy?

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