Re: 5 micron grit -- UK suppliers(was: ATM 500 grit done, wh

[Tom.Stock@gsbsc.gensig.com]

     Get a tub! Get a tub!!
     
     "Hey, there's nothing like a tub"
     "Hey bub, tubs are for studs"
     "Tub anyone?"
     "What do you mean you don't buy it by the tub?!"
     "There's nothing like a good tub"
     
     Sorry, Stephen, I couldn't resist being silly...
     
     I got my 5 from Willman Bell...but I don't know where you would find 
     it reasonably in the UK...just how much was a tub?  You'd never have 
     to buy it again if you had a tub!
     
     -tom
     
     
     
     


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Subject: 5 micron grit -- UK suppliers(was: ATM 500 grit done, what n
Author:  Stephen Tonkin <astro@aegis1.demon.co.uk> at Internet2
Date:    9/19/96 6:23 AM


Dave McCarter <mccarterd@claven.fanshawec.on.ca> wrote:
>Most amateur mirror makers do not fine grind nearly enough, shown by the 
>very many discouraging hours required to polish out the grayness at the 
>mirror edge.
>I would rather do ten wets of 5 micron AlO and save ten hours of polishing.
     
So would I, but my grit supplier only goes down to 9.5 micron.  Does 
anyone know of a (preferably reliable) UK source of small quantities of 
5 micron? (I know where to get 10kg tubs of the stuff...)
     
-- 
Stephen Tonkin            :    UK Amateur Telescope Making Pages 
<sft@aegis1.demon.co.uk>  : <http://www.aegis1.demon.co.uk/atm.htm>