Re: ATM - Figuring Advice

[Bruce Weertman <brucew@wrq.com>]

Recently I posted my thoughts on figuring. 
An astute reader responded to my posting with the following message:

> Thanks for telling us that you got this information out of books.   
> That way we will know to ignore it.  A lot of those old books will     > lead you to a 
>working telescope, but they contain ideas that are just 
> plain WRONG.

I have to take issue with this gentleman. Witness this piece of expert
advice I found in "Amateur Telescope Making" (fourth edition, page 80).

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"The polishing room should never be swept, and no feminine hand should
ever be allowed, on any pretext whatever, to "tidy" it. Total
destruction of a polished surface may be the result of neglect of this
rule... A lock on the door and the key in his pocket is the best
safeguard."
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