From: "Russell Jocoy" 
To: ShooterBall{at}hotmail.com, ATM{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Russell Jocoy" 


>From: "Rich Ball" 
>Reply-To: "Rich Ball" 
>To: "ATM" 
>Subject: ATM Old tool
>Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:20:09 -0500
>
>
>Mentors - I need help again.
>
>My 8" mirror project has been dormant for more than two years.  My tool
>(pitch lap) has been stored pitch up in a covered tray.  Today I set myself
>to figuring after finally making sense out of Mr. Foucault.
>
>I warmed the tool to about 80 degrees and pressed it with a mesh and cerium
>oxide for about 1 hour with a 30 pound weight.
>
>But even after so severe a pressing the mesh was not taken up in the pitch
>and I fear the pitch is too hard to take the pressing.  What should I do?
>More heat?  New pitch?
>
>--Rich Ball



("atm{at}shore.net")

      Rich,
                      Break down and buy a kilo of new pitch, it costs less
than the time it will take to mix that old crap to a workable mixture.,
besides who knows what lurks in that stuff...
                                                                      RUSS J
("atm{at}shore.net")
>

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