Some of the first parts made for ten of the 10" Teleports. Aperture masks, focusers, mirror cell frames, power supplies, and some Apple Ply parts.

Machining threads on a 2" Teleport focuser

A focuser is drilled for it’s three set screws in an indexing head on the milling machine. Holes must be precisely 120 degrees and .0833" apart.

A power supply plate being made on the milling machine

A rocker box side panel is made with a plunge router and a template

The rocker box side panel has the grooves cut for the top plate. The router bit is tilted 14° to match the dovetail cut on the top plate.

An altitude ring being cut out on the bandsaw

The ring O.D. is trued on a disc sanding fixture

Assembling a secondary cage (ambidextrous octupus not shown)

Assembling a rocker box

A rocker box clamped in its fixture

A mirror box clamped to cure

Mirror boxes with corner fillets curing

Applying catalyzed Polane in the booth

Polane-coated parts for ten 10" scopes

This is some of what happens upstairs over the LTFWT. Linda finished out the entire second floor of "The Annex", including plumbing, wiring, floors, walls, cabinets, etc. She created a nice little apartment for guests, a recording studio, and a sewing area for the Teleport shrouds and covers.

This little machine is Linda’s serger. When she was making the first shrouds a few years ago, I asked her if she could somehow sew in the drawstrings along the edges without any slack around them. She said "Yes, but I’ll need a serger". I said "What’s a serger?" "Oh, a couple of thousand dollars."

Sometimes the truth is expensive.