Re: [ATM] RE: Glued mirrors?

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

I will agree with that.   See my web page for more info on fabricating fuzed 
mirrors.

www.megspace.com/science/sfe.

. . . Richard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Guy Moreau" <jgmoreau@cablevision.qc.ca>
To: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>; <HalbertMusik@aol.com>; 
<atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] RE: Glued mirrors?


> Hello Bob, count me in  ;o)
>
> see
> http://www.cablevision.qc.ca/astro/alex-36ins.jpg
>
>
> 36" dia and 5" thick, 120 pounds of fully fused, strain free glass,
> f/4 molded faceplate, 5/8" thick, flat 1/2" back (seen in photo)
> can be polished/figured without printrough or astigmatism
>
> fusing is the way to go !
>
> Jean-Guy Moreau
> Quebec
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>
>
>> Gluing glass together will be an exercise in frustration all along the 
>> way.
>> Better to fuse the glass together and slump it at the same time.  There 
>> are
>> several people that have been doing fused blanks, our imitible Richard
>> Schwartz being one of them as well as another person who I don't remember
>> his name at the moment, to get volume without the weight of the solid 
>> glass
>> mirror.  Probably the best in this regard is the HexTek mirrors of Bob 
>> Goff
>> with which a 30" mirror can be picked up by a single individual without 
>> any
>> problems but the ungainlyness of the size of the object.
>> I'll also note that the BVC blanks appear to be fused glass.
>> Bob May
>> http://nav.to/bobmay
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