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The method of making mirrors is very simple. Mirrors are made by applying a reflective coating to a glass sheets. Glass is a major mirror component due to its transparency, ease to fabrication, rigidity, hardness, and ability to take a smooth finish but it is not
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My Mirror Grinding Machine. For a long time I've wanted to build a machine for grinding telescope 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, pulleys, etc. Most of them
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Hello list Does anyone know about making a mirror making machine? I have two motors (both run on 120 V AC and run at 1725 RPM, but the shafts are different (both run at 1/2 hp and one is a Baldor type)). The one that is Baldor type is hooked up to a double worm reduction box that slows the 1725 RPM down to
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Mar 25, 2009Fixed post mirror making machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I am in the process of constructing a fixed post mirror grinding machine. This will be for grinding a 20 inch mirror. I have successfully ground a 14 inch mirror by hand.
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In his Codice Atlantico, Leonardo offers two of sketches of mirror making machines . One machine is designed for grinding concave mirrors of small focal length. The other machine, a much larger piece to implement, grinds mirrors of large focal lengths.
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Feb 06, 2017Detailed info about Mirror Making Machines. Contact Taiwan Glass Machine supplier-YUNG GUAN MACHINERY CO., LTD. for mirror machine on Taiwantrade.
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A sample --and quite simple-- video of Vitastra's mirror making machine.This is a full-custom design first inspired on the polishing machines designed by Kar
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In his Codice Atlantico, Leonardo offers two of sketches of mirror making machines. One machine is designed for grinding concave mirrors of small focal length. The other machine, a much larger piece to implement, grinds mirrors
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Nov 18, 2017Mirror Making Machines - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Hi Everyone, I am thinking of re-starting mirror grinding at home. I used to grind by hand and in this method, when we use the 1/3rd off-centre strokes for hogging out the sagitta, the upper glass becomes concave and would be polished into a mirror.
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Mar 06, 2006Making a homemade mirror grinding machine - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I want to make a motorized mirror grinder, any good info on this, i have a couple geared motors, low speed high torque. One more question will 1 1/2 shaft
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Another surprising advantage is that hand made optics (if guidelines are followed) tend to have a higher surface quality than the mirrors polished by industrial machines. Building a reflector telescope can be decomposed in 2 steps: make the mirror and build the
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Oct 30, 2007'm fine grinding my 12 plate glass mirror blank with the M-O-M by Dennis Rech. It's an automatic mirror making machine that takes the caveman work out of
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A mirror making machine enables the optician to multitask as well as save their own bodies from the horrors of mirror making work. Small mirrors can get just plain boring to push around, but large mirrors can be physically demanding and detrimental to your arms, back and attitude. Here is a shot of Jeff Baldwin's 40" project from around 2000.
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This video shows the polishing of a 40 cm (16) mirror on the M-o-M. The diameter of the tool is 30 cm or 75% of the diameter of the mirror. The tool hangs
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