Re: ATM Advice on Large Spherical Mirror?

["Frank Ward" <thewards@mindspring.com>]

Vladimir,

I would include the price of an item I bought or found
if that price was a >vital< part of the purchase.  That
someone bought a 20" blank is uninteresting to me.
That he bought it for $200 and there were more makes
 the price "vital" to the information.

The price that our fellow ATMer paid for his new 16" spherical
"white elephant" is not vital.  Ahhhhh but if someone has a
BK-7 blank 16" in diameter that could be used for a SCT
corrector for it.......>that< would be vital.

Best wishes,

Frank Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Galogaza" <vladimir.galogaza@zg.tel.hr>
To: "Patrick St. Jean" <stjeanp@pat-st-jean.com>
Cc: <atm@shore.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: ATM Advice on Large Spherical Mirror?


>
> Ever since I red  ATM books 1,2 and 3, I noticed a habit
> of ATM-ers of Russel Porter times to mention ( proudly) if they
> obtained some part for their telescope for $0.3, or so. With years
> and inflation this sum has raised to somewhere in the $ 18,5 range or
> so, but not much more.
> This is so even today, our List is witnessing the phenomena.
>
> But if our fellow ATM-ers will acquire something in the orders of
> magnitude higher price class, as a rule, there will be no mentioning
> of the price as if this is obviously not interesting for anybody or even
> indecent. Milling , turning, and other machines are discussed  as they
> are for free or obvious.
> People are working with 20 " blanks not mentioning the damage to the
> wallet they suffered, but they found it necessary to announce they bought
a
> scrap pipe
>  for  1$.
> Everybody is salivating on the recent " scrap yard " buy of 16", 3.5"
thick,
> probably Pyrex mirror. Nobody dared to ask for the price nor the proud
> owner find it worth mentioning in a good old ATM tradition .
> Interesting habit. Is not that so?
> But why?
>
> So David, please satisfy my curiosity ( may be off List).
> What was the price for the beauty?
>
> Vladimir.
>
>