Re: [ATM] Slicing thick blanks - who can do it?

[Pete <lenses@adelphia.net>]

Hi Mike,
Suggestions that come to mind.
Do a search and ask if any of the water jet companies that handle glass 
products could do this.
Not sure if this is feasible but worth asking.
Any of the glass suppliers should be able to do this.
My short list.
1. United Lens.
2. Corning.
3. Schott Glass
4. Ask these 3 for recommendations.

Good luck, report back as to who can and will do this and for what 
amount of coins :)

Peter Nance, Jr.
lenses@adelphia.net

Mike Lockwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking around for advice on who could slice a 24"-diameter, 
> ~4"-thick Pyrex blank into two thinner 24" blanks.  I searched the 
> archives and found the exact same question
>
>    http://astro.umsystem.edu/atm/ARCHIVES/DEC97/msg00783.html
>
> but no one appears to have replied with an answer (no replies that I 
> see in the archives).
>
> So I'll ask it again, and maybe it will get answered 9 years later - 
> does anyone know a business/individual that can slice such a blank 
> into two pieces?
>
> I'm serious - a friend has real blank we'd like to slice and I'm not 
> just asking hypothetically.  We'd prefer the kerf to be under 1/4", 
> and it would be nice if the two new faces could be ground flat.
>
> 	Thanks,
>
> 	Mike Lockwood
>
>
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