RE: [ATM] Making glass blanks

[Mark Suchting <masuch@cia.com.au>]

These `lets grab a bucket of sand and mold our own blanks' threads always 
amuse and scare me a little .

When you can buy a precision machined blank, edged , bevelled , back 
blanchard machined, front diamond generated , fine- annealed blank , for 
such a reasonable price from a number of vendors why would you risk your 
life trying to prepare the quality of the above in semi-ignorance with sub 
standard equipment with such a life threatening material. It is the 
finishing that produces a nice blank: the annealing is cheap and the least 
of the expense.  One solid exposure of not fully  filtered glass dust can 
set you up for a life that is cut short by 15 yrs  with emphesema'.

You might as well join up and and head for Iraq.

Why the hell would you risk it?

~Mark   

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