Lurie-Houghton Telescope
Corrector Cell Frame on Lathe
The aluminum ring on the lathe was being machined to produce the main
frame for the corrector lens cell assembly. It is the part colored in red in
the 3D rendering that
can be seen in my design article
on the telescope. The disk seen laying on the lathe was cut out from the center
of a larger disk to make the ring. The same type of operation will be performed many times to
produce the various parts that will make up the corrector assembly and primary
mirror mount. Cullen Bennett of Arizona machined this for me in his home based
machine shop. This photo was taken 19 January 2000 with an Olympus D-600L
digital camera.
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