I've often thought of becoming a procrastinator, I might have a go some day.
G'day Sir J, hows things?
I cant believe how long ago it was we last spoke.
At the moment we are still drying out from the floods that have devastated our state although we escaped the worst others were not so lucky.
My current projects are a small steam engine but thats just a gap filler when I get hung up on the giant bino.
I wanted it to power the tilting trike I was almost ready to finish when I had to stop riding.
I cant find anyone as stupid as myself who wants to finish building the beast. Its a give away for anyone who will try to finish it.
Now I'm building telescopes.
The full story of the bino is here
Its time to re-visit the binocular. This is roughly what I want. I started these over 5 years ago but got side tracked building recumbent bicycles. Now I've almost finished the refractor I've started back on these. This is being built entirely from scratch including grinding and polishing the...
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The 3" refractor is here
I came into possession of a matched pair of Jaeger 83mm dia lens of f15 focal length. Although a focal length this long is somewhat against current practice I thought it might make a good project. As this project is a long one I thought rather than just put the odd bit in the “what did you do in...
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Hows your health?
Mines way better since I started keto a bit more than a year ago, down 20 Kg, no insulin injections, blood pressure down, blood sugars well under control etc etc. All round benefits but the dieticians still hate it although my Doc is wrapped in the results.
With so many old friends still here I should look in more I think.
Take care everyone as no one else will do it for you.
The drying out Sav.