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Re: [ATM] plate glass blanks

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Subject: Re: [ATM] plate glass blanks
From: Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:19:03 -0400
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horace r davis wrote:
>  
> 
>  if one was using plate glass 16 inch .94 thick how many point flotation
> would be needed

18, though it is right on the edge of needing only 12.  This applies to
Plop optimized cells
http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Holm/Plop_optimized_cells/27-pt_design_space_25.gif

A commercial cell, unless custom designed for this mirror is unlikely to
be near the optimum support configuration for this particular mirror, so
18 points is a safer choice.

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Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com

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