Re: ATM: Mirror Polish Testing

["Michael J. Coslo" <mjc5@psu.edu>]

>>> beam starts to reflect a good deal more light. The polish of the edgelooks
>>> fine under strong normal light.
>>>
>>>   Should I be able to proceed to testing the mirror now, or continue
>>> polishing?
>
>I'd say give it a quick test to see if you're looking at a fierce TDE
><shudder>; you'd probably want to slant your polishing (preliminary
>figuring) to address that.  Or maybe think about the cop-out mask.

        Yeah, it is probably time to build my tester. I really doubt I have
TDE however, but the thought has crossed my mind a few times. I thought I
recalled someone saying that the edges wouldn't ever take as good a polish
as the center at one time. But that may have been just someone looking for
a reason to stop polishing. 8^)

        I'll steer away from the mask though.

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