{"id":33489,"date":"2024-05-04T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33489"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T04:35:59","slug":"project-fix-telescope-missing-m5x0-8-custom-thumbscrew-bolt-maybe-3d-print-maybe-bash-one-out-of-a-larger-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33489","title":{"rendered":"project – fix telescope; missing M5x0.8 custom thumbscrew\/bolt, maybe 3D print? maybe bash one out of a larger bolt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

so my telescope (Celestron NexStar 130 SLT) is missing one of the 4 spider adjustment (aka secondary mirror adjustment boltts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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nothing found in Mcmaster-carr. Asked telescope mfg for part# & cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a bit more sketching, and finding possible bolts, and possible cobalt drills:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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or maybe make a 3D model<\/a> and have a 3D printer fab one up (JLCPCB?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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so my telescope (Celestron NexStar 130 SLT) is missing one of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[43,96,1340],"class_list":["post-33489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-diy","tag-projects","tag-telescope","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33498,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33489\/revisions\/33498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}