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Re: [ATM] How to grind and polish Slumped Mirror

To: vorblesnak@peak.org
Subject: Re: [ATM] How to grind and polish Slumped Mirror
From: Dominic-Luc Webb <dlwebb@canit.se>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:47:59 +0200 (MET DST)
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 vorblesnak@peak.org wrote:

> The 16 inch is a slumped blank.  I ground and polished it mirror on top
> using a full sized tool.  I received the slumping tool to use as a
> grinding tool but I did not want to damage it.  So I built a paper dam
> around the rim of the slumped blank and poured a concrete tool to use for
> the grind.  Once it was hard I cleaned the surface well and used epoxy
> glue to glue broken glass on the concrete.


Along these lines, I am testing full diameter plate glass embedded
into concrete.

Dominic

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