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Re: [ATM] Toole for my tool
You can also use a Shower curtain... look closely... they are ribbed too...
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@bestweb.net>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Cc: <mirrorworkshop@mtbparker.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:11 PM
Subject: [ATM] Toole for my tool
> Friends:
>
> Yesterday I took my recently separated mirror and Gugolz 64 to the mirror
> workshop given by Dick Pearce at his home in Tolland Connecticut (
> mirrorworkshop@mtbparker.com make sure that you put mirrorworkshop in the
> subject line.) As you may remember, my mirror and pitch lap were closer
> than the two prehistoric skeletons locked in an eternal embrace that were
> found in Italy and were the subject of the news last week.
>
> The lap was passed upon as pretty good, in spite of one edge pitch square
> that had chipped. Dick showed me how to tell if a mirror required
> additional polishing by looking at it with a light shining on it and
> seeing
> whether the light passes through the surface or can be seen on the
> surface.
> (My mirror requires additional polishing before figuring.) The mirror I am
> working on at Dick's workshop has a long way to go. The mirror that I am
> working at home also still needs additional work. That is the mirror and
> lap that is the subject of this post, my home project (7 7/8" f/3.92)
> ROC~51.?"
>
> I decided to continue with the lap. I wanted to hot press and begin
> polishing. It occurred to me that I needed a wedding veil to microfacet
> the
> lap, and I did not have one available. Where to get one?
>
> I started at the dollar store in town, no luck. Joanne's fabrics in
> Cortlandt Manor NY is closed, and I did not feel like traveling across the
> Hudson to Newburgh, or returning to Connecticut to the Joanne's Fabrics
> there. I had heard that Walmart carries the material, but I was too lazy
> to
> go there as it is about 20 miles, and frankly, Walmart in the Northeast
> U.S. is usually quite crowded and I just don't like crowds. I drove around
> my town and finally decided to try Michael's. It is a craft store that is
> usually full of women looking for things to do to occupy their Saturday
> nights and ultimately decorate their homes.
>
> I went to Michael's in Brewster, NY. I looked all around the edges of the
> store to no avail and was constrained to venture into the Lionesses den,
> the center of the store. There, right in the middle, not too far from the
> flowers was the Wedding Center.
>
> I knew that I had hit gold when both ends of the aisle had arches covered
> with just the material I was looking for, but could I convince the store
> to
> sell me the display?
>
> I sincerely doubted it.
>
> I ventured into the aisle. Looking on the shelves there were "bolts" of
> various materials, but not what I was looking for. Suddenly, I looked at a
> middle shelf and found gold, or should I say, pink.
>
> On the shelf was a package of twenty round sheets of toole, a fabric nine
> inches in diameter that was just perfect for my application, which was
> microfaceting a pitch lap for my 7 7/8" mirror. I couldn't believe it.
> Without the slightest hesitation, I picked up the package of toole, paid
> for it ($2.99 plus tax total damage $3.23) and took it home.
>
> Last night, I was home alone as my wife is in New Mexico for the next few
> days, making me a geographic bachelor. Cops was not on the TV so I turned
> on XM radio on my television (Channel 813 The Village is particularly good
> music for making mirrors) I heated up my pitch lap in very hot water while
> I mixed up a particularly good batch of CeO and after a few minutes, I
> LIBERALLY applied the CeO to the mirror, placed the Toole on the lap put
> the mirror on top and pressed down on the entire package with all of my
> 239
> lbs for a couple of minutes until I achieved good contact, which was shown
> by the individual squares of pitch showing through the mirror form the
> back. I removed the mirror and then the toole, washed off the lap in cold
> water and put it away for the evening, secure in the knowledge that if I
> could find a wedding veil, I should have no trouble whatsoever finding
> Beeswax, but that's another story.
>
> Francis J. O'Reilly
>
>
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