This last weekend, I have begun to design and build a total make-over for my 16 inch Lightbridge. In this design, all the hardware outside of the spider, focuser, and optics are replaced.
The mirror cell is mounted in a square box. Crutch-like trusses will be attached to the four sides of the box. And a new and lighter secondary housing replaces the original metal design.
This is an almost all wood design, with even the truss pieces made from wood dowels.
Attached to this post, are construction photographs of the overall design at the stage I was figuring out how long to make the trusses and a photo of the secondary rings.
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