From: burningclown{at}burningclown.com
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: burningclown{at}burningclown.com



Hi, all -

I've been stuck with my 10" at the polishing -> figuring stage for
some time, largely because of financial difficulties. I wanted to build the
Foucault Tester
described on the Stellafane web pages, but my budget keeps balking because
I'm having trouble affording food and so on. :| I had no idea plywood was
so expensive.

Anyhoo, to cut this short, the husband of a friend told me that he had some
testing equipment laying around from his teen years and that he'd send it
to me if I thought I could use it. It turned out to look almost exactly
like what I got with a 6" kit from Edmund Scientific back in the 70s:
it's called a "Junior Mir-O-Test" and comes from University
Optics in Ann Arbor.

It doesn't quite match the illustrations in the Sam Brown book ... there are two
separate pieces and there doesn't appear to be any way to get accurate
readings of the various zones ... anyone here ever used one of these
things? There  must be some way to do it.

Glenn Becker

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