Re: [ATM] Toole for my tool

[George Anderson <tillerman1@videotron.ca>]

A mesh onion bag works pretty good as well. Just take the onions out 
first.   :^)

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Thomas A. Moulton wrote:
> 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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