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

[atm_ken_hunter at yahoo.com (Ken Hunter)]

The ATM_FREE Group is still alive and well. I welcome
David's contributions as well as any others related to
ATM'ing.

Ken Hunter

--- Mike Warne <mwarne@network2000-hi.com> wrote:
> 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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