From: "Kreig McBride" 
To: "Ken Hunter" 
Cc: 
Reply-To: "Kreig McBride" 


One can silver a large mirror succesfully and relatively inexpensively.

Kreig

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hunter 
To: Bob Walker ; ATM Group 
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: ATM Too big, too thin?


>
>Bob...
>
>As nice as it would be to have a 36 inch Telescope, the fact is that you
need to
>sit down and analyze just how big that monster will be. There are probably
only
>3 or 4 places in the country where you can get it aluminized unless you
have some
>pull at a large observatory and just the cost of putting the aluminum on
the glass
>might set you back a couple thousand dollars... kinda costy for a piece of
??? plate
>glass. Cheap glass is not the end of the story.
>
>Then you have to think about the mount, how to transport it if you are
going to.
>IT WILL  NOT ALL FIT into the back of an SUV and have room for another
>person to share the gas expenses with.
>
>OK, now that I've burst your bubble, GO out and DO IT!
>
>(more, smaller mirrors that you can share with others is the way to go)
>
>Ken Hunter
>
>

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