Thursday March 25, 2010:
Today we cleaned up the telescope considerably and it all started with the Rocker Box. We discovered after only a short cleaning period that the plywood was actually yellow and of good quality. We used water, soap and rags to remove the dirt and debris that had accumulated on the scope from living in the bottom storage space of the BSU Observatory for, I believe, 15 or more years (I need to check this).
This is the Rocker Box (named this way because that is pretty much what the telescope does... it rocks up and down on this box) after cleaning it in the room down the hall from the shop.
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| Using a rag to clean off the Rocker Box. |
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| This picture shows the yellow coloring of the clean Rocker Box. |
We had to remove the black metal pieces on the outside of the the Lower Assembly next. Then we assembled it for one last time.
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Joe using a screwdriver to take off the metal corner piece.
I tried but they proved to stuck for me to un screw them. |
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| Me next to the Assembled Dob. |
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| Joe pionting to the focuser above his head on the assembled Dob. |
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| Joe then removed the Spider holding the old Secondary Mirror. |
Uncrewing the old tube from the Lower Assembly.
