Gary, Thanks for the advice; I'll be sure to check out Lowes. I can't say without removing one of the screws what the thread count/size is, but I'll try to find out soon. Meanwhile, the camera is a Kodak DC3400; somewhat limited features, but one of the best at rendering excellent colors I've seen on the market. At 2 megapixels, it's certainly enough detail for what I use it for. I used the special "close-up" setting for this particular shot, and scaled down the file size by cropping and then adjusting the jpg compression using Paint Shop Pro (the poor man's Adobe Photoshop). I thought the image still showed pretty good detail at only 56K file size... Rich --- Gary Liptrot <n7zi@attbi.com> wrote:
Richard,
The closest knobs I've seen is at Lowe's. They have a plastic head with four "wings" to tighten them up with. What's the length and thread size and I'll be on the lookout for some other types 'cuz I'm in scrouging mode lately.
Side note: what kind of digital camera are you using. The picture does look great.
Tnx es 73 de n7zi Gary Liptrot n7zi@attbi.com
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Richard Tenney Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:38 AM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Cc: Chuck Hards Subject: [Utah-astronomy] "Parts" question for the group
Hi all,
I seem to be pretty clumsy about knocking my old Criterion Dynascope around during transport, and as you can see from the pic [see the link below], I keep breaking off the knobs on my finder scope adjustment screws. I like these big knobs (except for the fact that they seem to be made of "potmetal"), but can't seem to find them in any of the local hardware stores. Any of you know where I can find some replacements like the ones in the picture (not the one on top)? (Can you believe how beat up this poor old finderscope looks?! That digitial camera works too well... ;-)
Anyway, here's the pic:
http://jove.prohosting.com/~uvaa/rich/6x30FinderCloseup.jpg
Thanks, Rich
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