Re: [ATM] the Phoenix

[Dave Smith <smithersscope@yahoo.com>]

Rich,
You have my sincere condolences!
I can empathize with you though...my wife's jogging
stroller took out my completely polished 13" mirror.
Alas I couldn't recover anything from it--hundreds of
shards. The second 13"er is stashed in a drawer when
I'm not hogging. Lesson learned!

Believe it or not...the jogging stroller is still
alive. ;O)    ggggrrrrrrr.



Dave
--- Rich Ball <ShooterBall@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mentors and friends,
> 
> I received a great deal of timely help from members
> of this list when my 8"
> f6 project was stalled out with a TDE and too deep a
> figure. Thank you.  I
> was doing well and finally moving along confidently.
>  At last measurement I
> was at 4/10th lambda and sure I could do better.
> 
> But in placing the mirror on the tool it slipped
> from my hands, fell onto
> the basement floor, bounced nicely without
> shattering, then (after hanging
> in the air long enough for me to be grateful it
> hadn't shattered) hit the
> floor again and knocked a chunk out of the face as
> big as a heel print.
> 
> Armed with resolve to keep mirrors off the floor I
> flattened the face of the
> Pyrex tool on some steel plate,  turned the mirror
> (now the tool) face down
> on the barrel-top and started hogging.  Confident
> that if I don't drop it
> again I can get to a more challenging figure I went
> to f4.5.  I'm currently
> getting through 120 grit and moving along fine.
> 
> And I've learned a lesson:  Pyrex is really tough,
> just not tough enough.
> 
> If this mirror ever sees the light of night I'll
> name it Phoenix.
> 
> More later,
> 
> Rich Ball
> Oak Park
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