Here are some more shots about what I have been doing lately with my telescope. Basically, I've decided to make the octagonal box that the mirror goes in first, and build everything else that goes around it based on that.
This is the mirror cell on the bottom of what will be the octagonal box that the mirror will sit in. I've tried to show here in these pictures how the cell is very adjustable from around 6 degrees all around the center op[tical axis.
In this second shot it shows how much this cell can be adjusted. It would never get that far in reality, but its pretty flexible.
Here, I have trued all the adjustment screws up so that you can see it as it will eventually rest. This is closer to reality. Note the allen wrench on the left adjustment bolt.
Isometric view of it. The adjustment screws are held fast to the board with brass threaded inserts. The ones I found have a fairly fine thread that matched the plys in the baltic birch.
This final shot is a cut-away drawing of what it will look like when finished. the blue transparent thing is the mirror, and beneath it is the cell. Both are surrounded by the octagonal mirror box.
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