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Re: [ATM] Conic section manufacturing

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Subject: Re: [ATM] Conic section manufacturing
From: Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:32:17 -0500
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>
>
>Has anyone 
>here experimented with taking a spherical mirror, using a similar rig 
>but flexing in the opposite direction (oblate) and then refiguring to a 
>spheroid and releasing the tension to produce a paraboloid?
>
No, but a guy in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh did an off axis 
parabola for a Hershelian this way.  It was in ATM Journal and is 
probably in the book "Best of ATM Journal" available at Willman-Bell.

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Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com


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