Well do you think it is? I personally can't think of any other
passtime accessible to the individual which requires such a high
degree of technical knowledge to succeed at. If anyone can think of
something more complex, let's hear it!
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What about completely homebrewing a telescope ?


Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:32:22 GMT, "Highland Ham"
wrote:

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What about completely homebrewing a telescope ?

Are you serious? We have kids in junior school who do that; grind and
polish their own mirrors - the whole process. Maybe not up to Zeiss
standards, but completely HB from start to finish nevertheless!
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

Paul Burridge wrote:
Hi guys,

Well do you think it is? I personally can't think of any other
passtime accessible to the individual which requires such a high
degree of technical knowledge to succeed at. If anyone can think of
something more complex, let's hear it!

Paul
Depends. Other hobbies that require some serious skills:

Amateur Telescope Making (lets see you design AND TEST multiple optical
surfaces with the reqired tolerance).

Home Foundary. Special skills required in safely handling white hot
molten metal, and making sand molds.

Amateur Rocketry. (Yup this IS rocket science! Im NOT talking
Estes here!)

Home building aircraft. Besides a pilots licence (to test the final
product) the skill to do it right (you going to actually FLY that thing
YOURSELF!).

Then there was the guy I met in college that built his own SUBMARINE!
(he was a scuba diver).

BTW, I AM interrested in numbers 1 and 2, and at one time number 4
(but I havn't flown since my 10 year old kids were born).

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:37 -0400, Ken Scharf wrote:

Depends. Other hobbies that require some serious skills:
[...]
Home Foundary. Special skills required in safely handling white hot
molten metal, and making sand molds.

With you on that one, I've made plenty of mistakes in amateur radio but
learnt a few things along the way.

Making mistakes in metal casting is not so forgiving...

--
Duncan Munro
http://amateur.duncanamps.com/
also http://metal.duncanamps.com/ !

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:37:17 +0100, Duncan Munro
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:37 -0400, Ken Scharf wrote:

Depends. Other hobbies that require some serious skills:
[...]
Home Foundary. Special skills required in safely handling white hot
molten metal, and making sand molds.

With you on that one, I've made plenty of mistakes in amateur radio but
learnt a few things along the way.

Making mistakes in metal casting is not so forgiving...

It doesn't make it any more technical. Or dangerous, for that matter.

--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

Paul Burridge wrote:
Hi guys,

Well do you think it is? I personally can't think of any other
passtime accessible to the individual which requires such a high
degree of technical knowledge to succeed at. If anyone can think of
something more complex, let's hear it!

Nope.

Try winemaking.

Dana K6JQ

"Dana Myers" wrote in message
news
Paul Burridge wrote:
Hi guys,

Well do you think it is? I personally can't think of any other
passtime accessible to the individual which requires such a high
degree of technical knowledge to succeed at. If anyone can think of
something more complex, let's hear it!

Nope.

Try winemaking.

Dana K6JQ

Amateur astronomers, hackers...

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