Re: [ATM] RE: RTV Silicone question

["Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>]

You are going to bond silicone to PVC?    Why not try teflon?

And then when it fails, you are going to go on the ATM list and announce to
the world that silicone is N.F.G!

Why?

. . . Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Whitefire" <chaosopher23@yahoo.com>
To: "Guy Brandenburg" <gfbrandenburg@yahoo.com>; "lou krajci"
<loukrajci@comcast.net>; <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] RE: RTV Silicone question


> Thanks to everyone - I don't plan on storing it upside
> down, and my secondary is the one I plan on sticking
> to a piece of PVC.  The primary will be held in with
> silicone as its backup plan.
>
> As for the Silicone II stuff, that's mostly acrylic
> latex that has little or no adhesive qualities that's
> supposed to smell better than Silicone RTV whiile
> retaining waterproofing qualities.
>
> I will use alcohol and a scouring pad to clean my PVC
> holder, and a sanding block to make sure the mirror is
> flat with the plastic.
>
> Kevin of Eastern Iowa
> Seeker of the Darkness
>
>
> --- Guy Brandenburg <gfbrandenburg@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I had a mirror come off, too, from sheer stupidity.
> > I
> > stored the telescope in a VERTICAL orientation,
> > because I thought that if I had the mirror at the
> > bottom facing up then it would get covered with
> > dust.
> > So why not have the mirror at the TOP facing DOWN,
> > where it would stay clean?
>
>
>
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