Category Archives: Observatory

But for a foggy start it has been a lovely day here today, allowing me to skip off work for a few hours and get some welding done. So at long last, here we have it. Pretty much all the … Continue reading →

I had hoped to get to the point where the roof frame could be put in place this weekend, but the weather had other ideas and my time to work on the roof was limited to a couple of hours … Continue reading →

A moment of truth now, when I try to put everything I’ve constructed piecemeal all together to form the entire roof. The first job was to take the two sides and get them set up parallel and square to each … Continue reading →

I’ve started work on the frames for the sides of the roof now. Below is my solution for fitting the wheels (I’ve decided to use just four as they’re supposed to be good to carry 250kg each and the entire … Continue reading →

The next step in the roof construction was to join some of the roof frames together. If I’d joined all four however I’d have ended up with something too big to manage, so I’ve paired up the four frames to … Continue reading →

Time to start welding! This took somewhat longer than I planned (what doesn’t? :D. In part because it’s years since I did any welding and most of that was stick welding, not MIG. But perhaps the biggest problem was cleaning … Continue reading →

The steel for my rolling roof finally arrived this week: sixteen three metre lengths of 25mm square section tube with a 2.5mm wall. The wait has allowed me to change the roof design several times 😀 This morning I wrote … Continue reading →

I hadn’t realised that we have a bank holiday weekend coming up, so in the hope that I’ll have a little more time available I decided to get some of the parts for the rolling roof ordered. First up are … Continue reading →