Re: [ATM] re; Best book to learn mirror making

[Guy Brandenburg <gfbrandenburg@yahoo.com>]

I wouldn't recommend the three volume ATM set either.
It's sort of just for historical interest at this
point, IMO. A really nice book that nobody else on
this list has mentioned is a rather new one by Marc
and Karine LeClaire (sp?), also published by
Willmann-Bell. It is sort of like Texereau, updated.
Guy B

--- Richard Schwartz <richas@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I would suggest that you buy that three volume set
> and BURN it to keep it
> out of the hands of some innocent fool.   Keep in
> mind that when that when
> many of those papers were written, the hit song was
> "Horst Wessel Lied", and
> one did not question authority in those times.  
> Yes, the eleventh
> commandment:  "Thou shalt not question."
> 
> . . . Richard
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ellen Mackenzie"
> <mackenzieconsulting@sympatico.ca>
> To: "atm" <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:26 PM
> Subject: [ATM] re; Best book to learn mirror making
> 
> 
> Hi Justin:
>     May I suggest that you have a look at the three
> book series - - -
> Amateur Telescope Making - - - it has everything in
> it to get you on your
> way to making a decent telescope. It is available
> from Willman bell as are
> all the grits etc you will need to get started. I
> built my first 8 inch with
> nothing more than this series and a local optician
> to suggest grits, laps,
> and finishing.
>     More modern publications tend to take a lot for
> granted re: prior
> knowledge. I haven't read Dobson's book but I
> understand from comments made
> that it might have a treatment of basic mirror
> making including thin mirrors
> from plate glass.
> 
> 
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