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I shall be interested to hear how your 3d printed scope turns out,
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since I would not think to do so. I've been 3d printing for 6 years. I've printed hundreds of things. Most of them were telescope bits. In my experience, 3d printing is the best way to get custom parts that don't need to small and strong at the same time -- provided you can't buy them. If you can buy them, its usually cheaper as faster than printing. Quality non-brittle (i.e. *not* PLA) filament isn't cheap. Parts that take 12 hours to print are not rare. Most of the work is designing (and re-re-re-designing). Huge effort is saved if you can use someone else's design files. But I'm skeptical that the 3d files you like would result in a scope that would hold collimation. But it would be fun to be proven wrong. If you do decide to print those parts for that scope, I suggest you feel free to iterate the design and customize it to be exactly what works best for you. Customization is the power of 3d printing. clear skies. -ad On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 2:36 AM PolyWogg <thepolyblog@...> wrote:
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