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Re: [ATM] Fwd: [capitalastronomers] calling all local experienced ATMers
I've been to Guy's workshop. I wish that I could assist, However, living in
New York it's just too far and my skills are not up to the level that Guy
needs. If anyone out there is interested, I am certain that you would find
fulfilling rewards in doing so.
Francis J. O'Reilly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Brandenburg" <gfbrandenburg@yahoo.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 11:19 PM
Subject: [ATM] Fwd: [capitalastronomers] calling all local experienced
ATMers
> (This refers to local ATMers in the Washington, DC area)
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> Guy Brandenburg <gfbrandenburg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Calling all local experienced ATMers!
> If anybody* feels that they have some solid experience as an amateur
> telescope maker, I could use some assistance on Friday evenings at the
> NCA-sponsored ATM workshop at the Chevy Chase Community Center, either
> with taking Couder/Foucault numerical measurements of nearly-completed
> mirrors, or else guiding newcomers through hogging, intermediate grinding,
> fine grinding, polishing, and so on. Or helping folks to cast laps, or
> figuring, and so on and so forth. There are more people working on mirrors
> now than I can handle. (When we have over a dozen people every night on
> every stage of the process from hogging to aluminizing to final
> collimation, it is more than I can manage.)
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> Especially since our resident ATM expert emeritus, Jerry Schnall, no
> longer feels well enough to come out at all.
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> It really is a lot of fun, and there are a lot of folks of all sorts of
> ages, genders, occupations, and ethnicities, but just don't expect to get
> rich.
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> Guy Brandenburg
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> *You know who you are!
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> Guy Brandenburg, Washington, DC
> My home page on astronomy, mathematics, education:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~gfbranden/GFB_Home_Page.html
> or else
> http://tinyurl.com/r6fh2
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> =============================
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