[ATM] ATM: Lost (but now found) articles-

[mwarne at network2000-hi.com (Mike Warne)]

Hi David,

Ken Hunter submitted some of your articles and pictures to the "atm_free"
group on http://groups.yahoo.com a while back.  They are in the Files
section.

When I was figuring my first 10 inch mirror,  I found your article "Some
earlly Ilustrated notes on Figuring the Parabola"  It was only partially
finished.   I had gone back to a sphere several times over a period of
months -- after using the figuring stroke described by  Texereau,  I always
ended up with a zony mirror, and I could not improve it much no matter how
hard I tried.  After reading your notes, -- cautioning against using the
"classic" figuring stroke,  and giving an alternate stroke -- I was able to
take control of my figure, and finish the mirror.. I was hoping you would be
able to finish that article someday, since it stopped right at the
interesting part!!

Anyway It would be great if all your notes could be put on a web site
somewhere as you and Bob May mentioned..  I don't have a web site, but maybe
someone here has some room for them  They helped me greatly.

Thanks much,
Mike Warne.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>
To: "ATM LIST" <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:19 AM
Subject: [ATM] ATM: Lost (but now found) articles-


> To all:
>
> While going through my "sent items" folder in my other email program,
trying
> to whittle it down (delete most of it; it had ballooned to well over 300
> messages) I found a couple of relatively clear accounts, introductory in
> nature, for using "area formatted" ring laps. As it happens, a while ago,
I
> started to write (in Word 2000) an illustrated article on this subject
that
> will be exhaustive and comprehensive. But I have so many irons in the fire
> that I haven't been able to get back to it lately.
>
> If any of you are interested in either or both of these articles (they are
> short html emails) I will be happy to forward either or both to anyone who
> wants them. Those will a 56K connection can expect a several minutes'
> download for the one with the larger number of large, color image files in
> it. The other one which is more general, and no color image files in it,
> will download pretty quickly.
>
> The "area formatted" ring lap works almost like magic to quickly cure
zonal
> defects. I have an example of a badly zoned up mirror, with three bad
zones,
> for which I drew a stencil for a compound, multiple ring lap, to cure all
> three zones in one operation, it worked like magic. I have to make up a
> small note with the image (focograph) of that mirror and the drawing of
the
> ring lap stencil I made for it, and perhaps can do that soon.
>
> All of you fellows have chided me again and again (properly- I deserve
these
> chidings- at least you guys are very polite about it) about not getting
any
> of these little articles I write formatted as pages. Of course I have the
> skills and knowledge to do that, but I have got to tell you, guys and
gals-
> I just cannot find the time; also my back pain and other domestic
> difficulties are limiting my abilities to do everything I would like to
do.
> But let me say this: absolutely anyone who wants to format any of the
> articles I have written as Word docs, or html emails, and put them on
their
> sites, absolutely have my permission to do so; naturally, please give me
> credit as the author; but otherwise I write these for you guys and they
come
> with no strings attached.
>
> I am just not hitting on all eight (five is about the best I expect, from
> here on out) and even though I keep promising you guys that I will make
> these up into pages, all of you know that I will never get around to it.
Ask
> and ye shall receive.
>
> I call these area formatted ring laps "Zulu laps". It's a little riddle
why
> I call them this. Guess why, or ask, if you can't figure out. Anyway, I
have
> put these two little introductory articles where I can find them, in my
new
> folder in which I am keeping all my little write-ups on figuring,
indexing,
> Zulu figuring, etc. They are for you guys. That is why I wrote them. Ask
and
> ye shall receive.
>
> Sure am glad to be back on the list. Makes me feel like they might delay
> shooting me for a while.
>
> Davey
>
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