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Re: [ATM] ATM: "Fortune favors the bold"



David and all.

Bob Goff was my mentor as well. We met at RTMC in 1995. The man was a genius 
and very kind. He always was willing to pick up the phone from his home in 
Tucson and call me with advice when I needed a helping hand.

I grind using many steps, 60 or 80 SiO then 120, 220, 320, 500 22.5 micron 
AlO, 15 micron, 9 micron, 5 micron and then 3 micron. When I get to three 
micron I double the time. I am considering going down to 1 micron as it is 
available very reasonably from Universal Photonics.

I have been using 2.8 micron CeO to polish, but I just picked up a 5Kg 
slurry ofg Universal Photonics proprietary rare earth compound known as No. 
85. The salesman, Jan, recommended it over CeO for amateur hand 
applications.

FYI, Universaal Photonics took my order around 11:00 on a Monday morning, 2 
Kg Gugolz 55, 2Kg Gugolz 64 and 5 Kg of Number 85 polishing slurry (The 
smallest quantity they sell of this product as a slurry, which was what I 
wanted). I had it the next day by 1:00 p.m. UPS from Long Island to 
Brewster, NY. Total cost was 218.00.

Francis J. O'Reilly
Dave, Nice Warrior! Not a bad Fairchild either. 

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