RE: [ATM] quality suffering

["Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>]

I will agree with this wholeheartedly that quality and availability of ATM
supplies is declining.   My first telescope was a "castrola" built in 1970.
For a mirror blank I used a glass caster cup intended to be placed under
the legs of furniture to prevent dents to the floor.   It was made by
Anchor-Hocking glass works, and made a great little 3" spherical mirror.

Later, Anchor-Hocking modified the design of these items: they were
manufactured with deep grooves.   I had a few of the old kind around that I
could use for mirrors, and the new grooved caster cups made good tools... 
but it was a LOT OF WORK to grind the grooves out and make mirors out of
them.

Now you only find those items in an antique store.  Caster cups are made of
plastic!   I have no doubt that the master conspiracy (Priory of Sion,
Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Bilderbergers, Vatican, Swiss Zionist Bankers,
and all the other usual  conspirators) got to the glass company and made
them stop producing an item of use to telescope makers.

. . . Richard

> [Original Message]
> From: Ina Ron Lippard Renaissance Reproductions <renrepro@surfglobal.net>
> To: <atm@atmlist.net>
> Date: 3/21/2004 3:40:06 AM
> Subject: [ATM] quality suffering
>
>
>
>      Risking an OT flame,I must agree that quality is indeed suffering in 
> many things that do pertain to ATM work.I recall picking up a telescope 
> about 30 years ago,(more like 40).Though it was a child's first scope,it 
> had plastic lenses in it!Quality is a most important design factor in our 
> work.Bad optics obscure our window on the cosmos.This in turn skews your 
> understanding of it. Which brings me to this question.If we lived on a 
> planet that was imbedded in a dense nebula,our view of the universe would 
> be indeed obscured.Were that the case,would our theory's on what was out 
> there be rather different as well?
> regards,Ron
>
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