Re: [ATM] Polishing/figuring not going anywhere.

[Mike Lockwood <melockwo@uiuc.edu>]

Bob,

Bob May wrote:
> Yep, I understand the concept.  Unfortunately, reality has this 
> problem of setting in and making hash of all the good intentions. 
> The pad lap is a ring lap (took the center pads off of it) and the
> edge pads are the only ones on there.  They do go a bit further in
> than the outer 1/3 section but not all that badly.  I also expected
> a small lap to act just like the ring lap would but only slower.

The ring lap that worked for convexing only had the very outer portion
of pitch remaining.  Removing the central ~50% wouldn't make it go
more convex.  I was surprised just how much pitch I had to get rid of
to make it work.  I maybe had the outer 30% left.

Any progress?

	Mike Lockwood

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