Re: [ATM] WAS Magnalium....

["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

Yes, Ken,

Quicksilver is mercury. I used an old english idiom, which meant that
quicksilver is mercury. Sorry to be obscure.

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Hunter" <atm_ken_hunter@yahoo.com>
To: "David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>; "Cary Chleborad"
<Cary@Chleborads.com>; "ATM List" <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] WAS Magnalium....


>
> --- David Harbour <scarab2@cox.net> wrote:
> > As per my earlier post, Cary,
> >
> > Try autocollimation with a pan of quicksilver or
> > oil.
> snip
> > G.W.R's
> > favorite method; but he was talented enough to
> > produce a big flat instead of
> > having to mess around with oil or mercury.
> >
>
> Aren't quicksilver and mercury the same thing?
> Getting mercury these days in quantity is harder than
> buying a ton of dynamite.
>
> Ken Hunter
>
>
>
>
>
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