Re: [ATM] A much belated update on various projects! Glass castingandother things.

["Thomas Janstrom" <thomas@moiler.com>]

Hi All,

Ok, I have done a bit of "web smithing" and have posted an update to my
web site, it doesn't even come close to covering all the bases, but well
you have to start somewhere, right?

The Url to my site is www.tjanstrom.com the new stuff is under the "new"
banner, towards the bottom of the page.... Enjoy.

Cheers, Thomas.

-----Original Message-----
From: tony gondola [mailto:acgna@comcast.net] 
Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 1:04 AM
To: thomas@moiler.com
Subject: Re: [ATM] A much belated update on various projects! Glass
casting andother things.

You're a busy fellow Thomas. Do you have a web site so you're efforts
can be 
followed?

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Janstrom" <thomas@moiler.com>
To: "'ATM List'" <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:15 AM
Subject: [ATM] A much belated update on various projects! Glass casting 
andother things.


> Hi All,
>
> Well as some of you might remember Early last year I embarked on a
> journey that will ultimately lead to my being able to cast my own
> cellular blanks. Well at this point I have finally been able to start
> work on the kiln, not the one I REALLY wanted to build, but big enough
> to prove the concept and hopefully enable the recovery of some of my
> costs. Ok maybe not!
>
> The kiln that I'm building will be able to house a mould large enough
to
> cast a 16.5" mirror blank, at present I have the refractory bricks and
> mortar on hand, and over the next two weeks I will be taking delivery
of
> the heating elements, computer temperature control system, and
ancillary
> bits and pieces.
>
> So all things being equal I should be able to cast my first trial
blank,
> a 10" pre-cored Cass blank (non-cellular) out of soda-lime glass. I
will
> be under taking this task in about three to four weeks time. A short
> time to work out what worked (and what didn't!) and I should be ready
to
> have a try with Pyrex, probably using the same design etc.
>
> Now for some other things, firstly my vacuum chamber/home aluminizer
is
> slowly nearing completion, my 8" DK bino-scope is on hold till the
> coating rig is up and running as that's where I'm up to on that
project.
> I have various other things on the go, but this will do for now, I
will
> post some pics of the kiln project if there is any interest in seeing
> what I'm up to;)
>
> Cheers, Thomas.
>
>
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