Baby Steps

[Tin Falcon]

Great looking first project there. You certainly took pride in it well executed. Bet you have a big smile on your face.
An optical center punch should be a piece of cake for you and give some lathe practice. Or you could use the mill as well.
and I agree probably did not need the mirror with that finish . Modern telescope optics are polished glass with aluminum coating. and there is a very clear refection on the side view.
Although a piece if first surface mirror would not be bad either they can be found in discarded scanners and copiers. I think I need to did mine out.
Tin

 

[Kmot]

Thank you very much, fella's!

Was there a calibration procedure to verify things are square?

Yes, in the video there is. Lex uses a pointed wiggler to make a dot on the crosshairs of a workpiece. Then he removes the wiggler and installs the optical version and it is dead on. That is how you verify it.

 

[Troutsqueezer]

The odds of the buffing wheel grabbing your part and throwing it against the wall/floor are directly proportional to the time and care you spent making the part.

For buffing you can also use a hard felt wheel on your drill press at a much lower speed (if you have one).

Looks good, Kmot.

-T

 

[tel]

Looking very good - nice bit of work!

 

[Kmot]

Thanks again guys! Wow, all ya'll sure know how to make a guy feel good! Thm:

Well, the proof is in the puddin', as the saying goes. I used a wiggler and made a dimple on some crossed lines, then replaced the wiggler with the optical version and it was dead on. woohoo1

I took some pics and it was extremely hard to get my camera lined up just right so the pic looks a little off but, the tool is not.

Now on to something else.... scratch.gif

 

[joe d]

Dang you Kmot, that's just tooo nice not to end up on my tooling "roundtoit" list...

good job of work you've done there.

Cheers, Joe