Nuts and Blots

Last night while up at the corner, I noticed I couldn't keep the bolts that
hold the side bearings on Galactica tight, so this am I looked to see and
found I couldn't reach down to hold the nuts inside the ota, so I switched
it around and carefully removed the back end. Taking the mirror in cell off
the rest of it. I then tightend the nuts and bolts and I don't think they'll
come lose now. I blew out the dust and spiderweb inside the tube, carefully
cleaned the mirror, took the solid plate and drilled 3 one inch holes in it
to let air move around the mirror and out the vent hole I had drilled. Put
it all back together, jumped right out of my skin as just as I had placed
the mirror in but no screws as of yet, a really BIG SHARP Sonic Boom hit and
the way it sounded at first, it was like an old 155 firing!

Got it together, but not alined yet, it's under the tent tarp as
thunderheads are forming and we just might get hit.


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Last night while up at the corner, I noticed I couldn't keep the bolts
that hold the side bearings on Galactica tight, so this am I looked to see
and found I couldn't reach down to hold the nuts inside the ota, so I
switched it around and carefully removed the back end. Taking the mirror
in cell off the rest of it. I then tightend the nuts and bolts and I don't
think they'll come lose now. I blew out the dust and spiderweb inside the
tube, carefully cleaned the mirror, took the solid plate and drilled 3 one
inch holes in it to let air move around the mirror and out the vent hole I
had drilled. Put it all back together, jumped right out of my skin as just
as I had placed the mirror in but no screws as of yet, a really BIG SHARP
Sonic Boom hit and the way it sounded at first, it was like an old 155
firing!

Got it together, but not alined yet, it's under the tent tarp as
thunderheads are forming and we just might get hit.


--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond


155's were almost like popguns compared to the 175's that kept me awake all
night with harassment fire...

--
Jan Owen

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