[ATM] Cutting glass into large circles

[Russell Jocoy <russjocoy@hotmail.com>]

Merry Christmas , and Happy New year.... Cutting round pieces of glass out of square pieces of glass has been my job for about 3 years now.. My main idea was to cut all and any glass that I had aquired two and a half years ago into disk's that would be made into telescope mirrors..
   I have been doing this, whether thick or thin, "pyrex" or "plate" disk's from 8" to 16".., and thickness that is available from the stock I have.. I built a machine that can cut circles like a record player's tone arm... My machine still cuts true after 40 disk's.. Many diamond blades have ground the glass, large amounts of glass powder mixed with water has gone back to the earth..
and I still continue to cut out these disk's...... I grow weary of the "round and round" motion, the endless grind of the glass, the final edging to hide all of the edge clam's... Will it never end???
    NO, not until I have cut every piece of glass that I own , into a disk...My machine long's for a disk to figure, but it has been beaten down by forced glass cutting...  it weep's  , but this is good, lubrication is needed in the cutting process, I long to make one of these disk's into another mirror, but I have two that are great to look into the sky, they are finished and are lovely scopes...I need not another???    I will cut until those who have not.. have..or something like that..Happy New Year and remember where that blank came from, someone cast it in a kiln, cut it with a jet injection cutter, or used a record player type tone arm with a diamond blade on a grinder to make your circle.....    Russ Jocoy   Make More Telescopes, your children need to "see"
 
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