What did the postman bring?

[Raph-in-the-sky]

Just joined the black and green club! 

[DaveS]

Well, Mr DHL (In a plain van, like the one they'll take me away in lol) finally delivered my mitre saw. It's in the garage, photos to follow when I take delivery of a round tuit, ad it stops chucking it down, had a thinner shower in the bathroom.

[Danjc]

For helping remove the very stubborn screws on my SW ED80 holding the focuser on. 

[Alan White]

2 hours ago, Danjc said:

For helping remove the very stubborn screws on my SW ED80 holding the focuser on. 

Concerned you will remove the paint with the use of a blow torch.
Would a hair dryer not be a safer bet, or are you beyond that stage?

 

[Gina]

I have several hot air guns of different sizes - very useful items.

[Gina]

Nothing arrived here today 😕

[JamesF]

2 minutes ago, Gina said:

I have several hot air guns

You heard it here first, folks: Gina deals in stolen firearms

James

[Gina]

Oh very droll, James  🤣

[JamesF]

4 minutes ago, Gina said:

Oh very droll, James  🤣

Sorry

James

[Gina]

No problem James 😀  It did amuse me.

Edited October 18, 2019 by Gina

[Uplooker]

7 hours ago, Raph-in-the-sky said:

Just joined the black and green club! 

That is a lovely EP, it is one of my most used. You will have hours of fun with that one 👍

[Raph-in-the-sky]

12 minutes ago, Uplooker said:

That is a lovely EP, it is one of my most used. You will have hours of fun with that one 👍

Thanks, I'm pretty excited about my first TV. It's a big step up from BST starguiders!

Just a question: do you manage to take in the whole FOV? I did a brief daylight test and I didn't seem to be able to see more than 80-90% of the field at once.

However I did manage to see details never before seen on the house at the other end of the street. Exciting stuff 😉 

[Danjc]

1 hour ago, Alan White said:

Concerned you will remove the paint with the use of a blow torch.
Would a hair dryer not be a safer bet, or are you beyond that stage?

 

A hair dryer would have been loads safer and I did try a few things but to no avail unfortunately so went for it very cautiously....😬

 

Edited October 18, 2019 by Danjc

[RT65CB-SWL]

1x 16G/byte (£4.96*) ---> and 1x 32G/byte (£6.63*) ---> SD memory card...

...for my Nikon D80 & D40x DSLR camera bodies.

 

 

edit: forgot to mention they were purchased from https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/ (price excludes VAT + P&P).

Edited October 21, 2019 by Philip R

[Danjc]

Nice to see something in a nice Matt black opposed to an anodised gloss black finish, cheers FLO 👍🏻  
 

Edited October 19, 2019 by Danjc

[Gina]

The Nofan has arrived and I can now make progress on my ASC or at least try it and see if it does what I want.

[DaveS]

23 hours ago, DaveS said:

Well, Mr DHL (In a plain van, like the one they'll take me away in lol) finally delivered my mitre saw. It's in the garage, photos to follow when I take delivery of a round tuit, ad it stops chucking it down, had a thinner shower in the bathroom.

Well, I also managed to take delivery of a round tuit, and it's stopped raining for the mo, so here are some photos.

That is a BIG box, and as heavy as it looks. Opening it revealed

A tray of bits and bobs. Taking the tray out revealed the main event.

Looks complicated. After wrestling with the styrofoam packings (Which wanted to come out too) I managed to get the saw out of the box and onto the floor.

Now going to RTFM, to avoid removing fingers, or even hands.

I have a horrible feeling that I may need to mitre the sole plates the hard way with a jig saw, as I think it will be too unbalanced in the mitre saw.

[johninderby]

Don’t forget your safey gear before using. 😁😁😁

[Danjc]

21 minutes ago, DaveS said:

Well, I also managed to take delivery of a round tuit, and it's stopped raining for the mo, so here are some photos.

That is a BIG box, and as heavy as it looks. Opening it revealed

A tray of bits and bobs. Taking the tray out revealed the main event.

Looks complicated. After wrestling with the styrofoam packings (Which wanted to come out too) I managed to get the saw out of the box and onto the floor.

Now going to RTFM, to avoid removing fingers, or even hands.

I have a horrible feeling that I may need to mitre the sole plates the hard way with a jig saw, as I think it will be too unbalanced in the mitre saw.

I have had a mitre saw for years it’s been one of the most used Power tools I have. 

[Alan White]

Post person delivered early today as I left home, only just opened the FLO parcel.
My much looked forward to 0.75 Dioptrx unit.
I hope my views will improve, may still yet need a Coma Corrector as well, you know how it never ends!

Of course I may decide to have more than one Dioptrx as well to save messing about,
Butt at £92 each,perhaps not.

[DaveS]

After some thought I've added a saw bench and free standing support for the long timbers I'll have to cut up.

[DaveS]

From @FLO Baader LRGB and ultra-narrow Sulphur and Oxygen. Just waiting for the Hydrogen.

2" filters for my Moravian 16200 camera.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 16/10/2019 at 14:06, Davey-T said:

Guess what this is 

Dave

Torque wrench 🙂

 

[johninderby]

Something for playing with your RA/DEC knobs??? 😁

[JamesF]

10 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Torque wrench 🙂

You know, I've not used one of that sort of design for so long that it didn't occur to me.  I'm sure I must still have one somewhere though.

James