Re: Re[2]: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure

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

Ahh, you guys are right. What an idiot I am.

Don't kick me off the list.

davey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Hunter" <atm_ken_hunter@yahoo.com>
To: "David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>; "ATM List" <atm@atmlist.net>;
"Richard" <cnc@cncservo.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure


> David...
>
> I'm ashamed of you.
>
> You used screws and glue to build that mount! And
> Plywood too! Using your own stated rules and logic,
> you should have grown your own hardwood forest, felled
> the trees with stone axes (is that too modern?), used
> burned-in holes and pegs for assembly and dried plant
> leaves for pigmentation of the paint...
>
> Come now, Confess to taking shortcuts and we'll
> forgive you your sins... ;0)
>
> Ken Hunter
>
>
> --- David Harbour <scarab2@cox.net> wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > Thanks for your question. I think I roughly
> > explained, earlier: I am
> > obsessive/compulsive, and look for MORE time
> > consuming ways to do things. I
> > never do things by halves (never look for
> > shortcuts). There is something
> > deeply satisfying about doing a job "the ideal way".
> > For me, not silicone,
> > and not a Dobbie.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > 3,500 hours and three and a half years to produce
> > this: (the largest error
> > in its geometry was a sixty fourth of an inch)
> >
> >
> http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/Photos,%20med/ROLL3JPEG-7.JPG
> >
> >
> http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/Photos,%20med/ROLL2JPEG-11.JPG
> >
> > How long to build a nicely finished Dobbie?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Richard" <cnc@cncservo.co.uk>
> > To: "David Harbour" <atm@atmlist.net>
> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:27 PM
> > Subject: Re[2]: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure
> >
> >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > Friday, May 27, 2005, 7:12:07 PM, you wrote about
> > silicone
> > > adhesive:
> > >
> > > DH> No one could persuade me to use it to mount
> > mirrors.
> > >
> > > Why's that?
> > >
> > > -- 
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >   Richard in the UK
> > >
> > >
> > >
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