Re: ATM A Very Bad Day

[astrojoe@erols.com]

Answer ..... D - It's best to avoid all the questions when other
amateurs look at this mirror and ask you about your aggressive beveling
technique.

Happy New year,

Joe Castoro


> 
> Janik Zikovsky wrote:
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > This is the tale of my very bad day (today).
> >
>Snip>>

> > heavy to put on the mirror. Whilst I was turned, the mirror slipped off the
> > pitch, off the table and onto the cement floor. It's interesting to note
> > that for a couple of seconds I was sure it was all a dream and I would wake
> > up, and my mirror would be fine.
> >
> > Obviously it wasn't a dream, and the result of the fall is a very large
> > "chip" ("chip" does not do it justice) 1.25" wide by 3.5-4" long, on the
> > edge. The rest of the mirror is fine.
> > The chip covers about 7-8% of the area of the mirror.
> >
> > My mirror was fine ground and ready for polishing (I can take comfort in
> > that it wasn't polished, figured, and aluminized...).
> >
> > So here is my question : What do I do?
> >
> > Do I :
> >
> > a) Give up ATMing and become a tibetan monk?
> > b) Finish the mirror anyway, and use it knowing that i'm losing 8% of the
> > light?
> > c) Finish the mirror, but plan the telescope mount big enough to fit a 10"
> > mirror, that I could make later on?
> > d) Put the broken mirror somewhere visible as a cautionary example, and make
> > another mirror?
> >
> > Anybody with personal experience with this, i'd like to say :
> > "I feel your pain"
> > and ask what did you do?
> >
> > thanks all,
> > Janik Zikovsky
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