[pasmembers] Re: [AZ-Observing] Lowell Clark refurbishment and re-installation
- From: Alex Vrenios <axv@xxxxxxx>
- To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:12:44 -0700
That's a big job; expensive and time consuming. But when you think about it,
how cool it would be to play a part of such a restoration?
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Howard Moneta <hmoneta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think some folks would be interested in this status report.
>
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> From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bas@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015
> Subject: [AZ-Observing] Lowell Clark refurbishment and re-installation
> To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Folks have asked me about progess on the refurbishment
> of the Lowell Clark refractor. Thanks to the dry
> winter, and the fact that the telescope mechanical
> parts presented fewer problems than might have
> been found, things are progressing very well.
> Briefly, every metal part from very big to
> very small, has been gone over or re-made.
> To give you an idea of the scale, the RA and Dec
> axles are 1100 pounds each, and the housing on
> each are another 1100 pounds. Those counterweights
> at the end of the Dec axle are 400 pounds each
> (six of 'em).
> Many of the parts at the business end of the
> telescope have been made new to look like copies
> of the originals, but better. (This mainly done by
> Peter Rosenthal.) Big engineering parts have been
> refinished and reassembled with current-technology
> and modern lubrication (for instance) so that things
> will not oxidize etc. There are now CAD drawings of
> everything, so that when we do this again a hundred
> years from now, there'll be something to work from.
> (The Clarks supplied no drawings or instruction manual!)
> The dome has also been completely gone over to make
> it structurally sound, back into code as far as
> electrical etc, decent lighting installed (at last!),
> and much else. The whole thing is going to look
> _beautiful_ when it's put back together.
> Ralph Nye, who is in charge of all this,
> has scheduled a crane for March 16 to start moving
> the mount back into the dome, and by March 19
> the idea is to reassemble the telescope.
> They're talking sometime in May to have the telescope
> back on-line and fully functional.
>
>
> \Brian
>
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