It took a little fiddling to dial in but the new adjustment system is working just as planned 🥳🎉
FYI, These kinds of telescopes have two opposing mirrors in them that must be kept in allignment and they require periodic adjustment to maintain that allignment. Heres a little more so you can get an idea of how they function.
I propose to adopt this spring tensioned design, It's common in the primary mirror cells of Newtonian Telescopes. The bolts drive outward away from the mirror and are tensioned with thumbscrews and held in tension by springs. Much less danger of overtightning, and the bolts cannot drive through to the mirror itself.
This is the stock design, with screws driving into a metal plate behind the mirror. Tensioning a screw drags the mirror toward the corrisponding direction. This desing is prone to overtightening and jamming, and the screws can actualy penetrate through to the mirror! Terrible!
I made a chill lil' vlog about developing some film and the photographs I've been posting lately. Hope you like it c:
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