RE: ATM Pitch Laps

[hermit <hermit@outofoptions.com>]

Quoting Jerry <wa4guu@verizon.net>:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Taylor
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> but as a "start" I'd think adding some to
> the witch's brew wouldn't hurt anything, would it?
>

By the time you added enough to make a difference, you could alter the flow
characteristics of the pitch.

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> 	It won't help. So even if it doesn't hurt it is a waste of cerium
> oxide. A pitch lap doesn't "wear" like an abrasive grinding wheel. It flows.
> The cerium oxide embedded within the pitch that is not at the surface of the
> pitch will never be at the surface and will never polish you glass.
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> Jerry
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> I successfully refrained from asking the obvious question. If you were going
> to do that with the cerium oxide, why not mix the water in at the same time
> you are mixing the pitch and cerium oxide?
>

You have never worked with pitch, have you? ;-)  You want to keep water away
from pitch at this stage.  They don't mix and you will have an ugly mess.


Hermit
Holed up in Youngstown, Ohio