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Posts Made By: Tony Aguire

May 1, 2010 03:21 AM Forum: Politics

In a diversion of lambasting Obama

Posted By Tony Aguire
This kind of underscores my point. The Junction of SR 84 and Rte 8 is less than 5 miles from my house. I was at the feed store when in a course of 10 minutes we watched over 20 law enforcement vehicles from various agencys speeding by....

The video is rather long, but here is some action later...

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/04/30/20100430pinal-county-officer-shooting.html

May 19, 2010 06:31 PM Forum: Politics

Arizona justice

Posted By Tony Aguire
Rob Wiederrich said:

Good for them...Since California is boycotting them..they now today said they will refrain from sending California power . Arizona contributes 25% of Californias power needs. 8O

Boycotts can be expensive.....especially if they're stupid.

Good...

I haven't been to happy with my local reps lately, especially with the education cuts and budget deadlock.

Finally some spine and commitment grin

June 17, 2010 10:13 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Goto mount with manual control?

Posted By Tony Aguire
Don McDonald said:

As much as I enjoy waltzing the night away with my big Dob, I am getting the bug to try a goto scope. After watching a friend go through months of frustration with an ETX 125, I have one primary requirement; the mount must be usable in manual mode if no power is available. And this doesn't mean untightening the clutches, it means access to the gearing with a good old fasioned plastic knob. I am disappointed that the current generation of goto equatorials have no manual control at all. I find this truly stupid. Older goto equatorials did have facility for manual control. Isn't that the whole point in having a GEM?

After a farily intensive survey of the major dealers and a long hunt through Astromart, I think I am hooped. Mounts like the iOptron cube and all the various Meade, Celestron and Orion fork mounts are strictly power only. I really like the Borg single arm mount. It has the potential to be motorized but is too small for my application. Does anybody know of anything out there that could be used goto and manual? Maybe a bunch of ATM'ers should get together and invent it for us.


Having completely disassembled and re-assembled my own Goto CG5, it does not look all that difficult to add clutch mechanism to the stepper motors. The only thing that I could foresee as being an issue is if you are concerned about cosmetics. The plastic covers for the electroguts leave very little room internally, so they would have to be modified to add an accessible component between the stepper and the worm. the plastic covers should not be completely removed, IMO, as they support and protect the circuit boards and switches/connectors. As the worm shaft does not extend beyond the bearing on the opposite side of the motor, one would either have to add another spur gear mechanism to the motor side, or machine the worm shaft end (opposite the motor) so that one could attach an extension that could engage a slowmo cable.

Clear Skies

July 7, 2010 07:22 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Quit my job today...

Posted By Tony Aguire
Part of what I do now...

Certainly much better than working at a casino.
These 4 pups were found in the Arizona desert near Suprise, 3 days before this video was taken they were scared of humans and would run when approached...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZLtOJWkmQ

July 10, 2010 01:23 AM Forum: Bad to the Bone Autos

Cars of the 60s Unreliable

Posted By Tony Aguire
THOUGH...My 85 Ford F250 managed over 600,000 miles on the old 460 FE block (2 rebuilds) ...the last incarnation "mine" included roller rockers, Keith Black Pistons, a custom cam after flow analysis, crank, rod, piston ballancing, and blue printing, MSD 7 Ignition etc (a very long list)....

385 ft-lb tourque at an idle (800 RPM) 585 ft-lb at 3800 RPM, 560 HP at 4600 RPM...

My old F250 was like a rocket powered locomotive getting on the highway grin

July 10, 2010 01:40 AM Forum: Politics

Worth reading

Posted By Tony Aguire
Good article...the irony is that as I have aged, on some subjects I have gotten much more conservative, and others, I have become more "liberal". What say others to this observation? Have any of you found political change with age and experience?

July 15, 2010 12:06 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Cleared Again

Posted By Tony Aguire
Recently I have received comments from posters(s) that indicate they feel that other posters cross the line (and insulted) when posting comments directed at other posters.

This is not the politics forum

Given it has been a while since I have addressed this before, now might be a good time to remind everyone that in this forum, I strive to keep the conversation from straying to childish insults, innuendos, name calling etc. As astronomers, I certainly hope we are all logical and contain enough self control to be able to refrain from posts that inject disrespect of one another's views.

Thank you all for your continued support of Astromart, and thank you for stopping by...

BTW, my PM is not terribly reliable, If you wish to comment privately direct emails to

[email protected]

The address that is used on my Astromart profile is a different one that my wife uses as well. When I buy/sell, she helps with payment, shipping etc. Correspondence of any other nature should go to the above address.

Clear Skies
Tony Aguire

July 21, 2010 01:11 AM Forum: Bad to the Bone Autos

Need A Project?

Posted By Tony Aguire
Lee Spain said:

Uh-oh! This old DeSoto needs to get Maaco...

Salvageable...

Though from the front looks like the rear clip could need some tlc. I once restored a 69 Olds Cutlass convertible that was towed out of a heavily wooded back yard...It had a tree growing up through the hole in the center hump where the shifter would normally reside. 'Twas a rolling shell, we made it into a daily driver.

Anything is possible with patience and love

Where is this (Desoto) car now?

July 24, 2010 03:33 AM Forum: Politics

GOTUS

Posted By Tony Aguire
Cool,


now how many hours has Obama spent "clearing brush on the ranch" as compared to Bush?

August 20, 2010 03:56 PM Forum: Politics

Hell no, we won't build

Posted By Tony Aguire
worth reading...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/19/politics/main6787320.shtml

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