[ATM] A Big Challange

["Jeremy Batterson" <jdbaterson@msn.com>]

Richard,

 

YOUR REWARD IS YOUR SUCCESS:

 

I offer you the following challenge:

 

Can you or anyone else, seriously figure out an insightful means to produce a large mirror blank at a fraction of the cost of buying one from Corning, etc. This can be:

 

1) Some new type of material, plastic, ceramic, metal,  table top, or whatever.

 

2) Some new type of holding cell, so that a thin piece of glass, far thinner than the norm is used.

 

3) A means to produce a large glass blank by melting. Here you would have to figure out some way to minimize annealing. 

 

The idea is simple: the typical atm would love to build a 24 or 30 inch primary, but few can cough up 5 or 10 grand for a glass blank. 

 

Instead of a lot of know it all chatter, why don't we actually do something useful, and figure this out, putting to use all the talents and knowledge available. What are the detailed procedures and suggestions?

 

Best wishes,
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