Re: [ATM] cutting plate glass

[Dave Smith <smithersscope@yahoo.com>]

Hi Norm,
Welcome to the ATM list!
You're starting where I started several years ago. I
hope you know what you're getting into! (just kidding)

I strongly recommend a search of the ATM archives!
This conversation has crossed paths with the list
multiple times and there is some excellent information
available there in the archives. 

http://astro.umsystem.edu/atm/search.html

Try searching with keywords trepan and biscuit cutter.
I built a grinding machine to trepan and it works
well...slow, but well. Many others have done so very
successfully as well.
Feel free to ask more specific questions!
Good luck!
Dave

--- Norm Prince <norman.prince@verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm a novice at this whole ATM thing, 
> I recently found a big chunk of plate glass that is
> aprox. 13"x5'x3/4", and
> How the heck does one go about cutting a circle out
> of such a chunk of
> glass?  Can this be done effectively w/o some crazy
> machine tool that you
> won't find in a basic shop setting?
> 
> Thickness is a big ??? too.  

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