Re: [ATM] First Timer Polishing Questions

[Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>]

I am opposed to paper towels around good glass.  Too likely to shed
fibers and too likely to have a little grit in them.  Get a good
quality, all cotton, woven non-terry dish towel.  Run it through the
laundry a couple of times to get the sizing off of the threads and
remove as much gritty stuff that it may have picked up as possible, then
store is in a dust free place away from any grit and only use it for
your optics.  Every once in a while, run it through the wash with your
other dish towels.  This, by the way is also a very good way to preserve
the surface of those expensive eyeglasses many of us have to wear.
Paper and good glass should not mix.

Oh, in case it's not obvious, paper towels are fine during grinding.
Switch to the good cotton towel when you have cleaned up the grit and
moved into polishing.

Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com


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