User talk:JamesStewart669

Speedy deletion nomination of Link with new article


A tag has been placed on Link with new article, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article that does not provide sufficient context to identify its subject. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 20:24, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

adding bendable plywood slip joints to a Sonatube telescope tube
first I have never found any referances to bending plywood slip joints in telescope building literature. This is suprseing because bendable plywood is a redily available materianh and is commonly used to make the forms for curved concrete and plaster walls, the aprons for round tables, amd all sorts of curved objects. The slip joints are easy to make. Three inch wide strips of bendable plywood can be bent into an eight inch cirsle by hand. Adding moisture to bendable plywood makes it more flexable. The slip joint is made by glueing a three inch strip of bendable plywood to the inside of the tube end, an protrucing one inch beyont the end of the cardboard tube. The slip joints make the telescopes more portable, and add easy set up to the larger telescopes. Here the telescope is stacked on a jack several inches above the support floor so the altitude bearings will line up. So one person can have a hundred and fifty pound telescope resting on it's altitude bearings. I would love to find out more about what other have found out about bendable plywoo slip joints for Dobsonian telescopes. jasgmm@cinci.com

Telescope "how-tos"
Hi, I have reverted this edit at Dobsonian telescope because it goes against consensus on what an encyclopedic article is, i.e an article about the Dobsonian telescope would contain information you found in a reliable source describing the Dobsonian telescope, what the fundamental description of one is, its history, how it affected amateur astronomy, etc. It would not contain instructions on how to build one since Wikipedia is not intended to be a an manual, guidebook, textbook on how one is built.

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