Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Mirror Cell Redux

Round 2 on the Mirror Cell:

Work is progressing. The PLOP calculations are complete, and I'm scrounging the local scrap yards for 1/4" Aluminum plate and 1" x 1/2" key stock for the bar joist.

I'll be using 3/8-16 Weld Nuts as the supports, as indicated by the awesome Bino-scope engineer Bruce Sayre on his website:

http://www.foothill.net/~sayre

Overall it should look something like this:

I'll post more pictures as I get things accomplished. I'm off to the scrap yard!

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