From: "Jan van Gastel" 
To: "charles f" , 
Reply-To: "Jan van Gastel" 


It can be done easily with a guitar string (if there is room enough to get
the string between dowel and secondary). The silicone can be removed with
eucalyptus oil, after raw cleaning with a razor blade or something. Put the
oil on the silicone, let it do its work a bit and rub it off. When I read
about the eucalyptus oil for the first time I could hardly believe it, but
it works well.

Jan
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/Astronomy/


----- Original Message -----
From: "charles f" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:01 PM Subject: ATM secondary mirror removal?


>
> Hello to all. I now have my second scope just about to a stage where I
will
> be removing my secondary mirror and attaching it to the new scope.  The
> mirror is siliconed onto the wood dowel and I would like to reuse the
> mirror, but not the dowel.  does anybody have any suggestions to get it
off
> the dowel? is it worth it? or should I just purchase a new secondary.  I
am
> using the primary from my prototype scope and putting it into the new
scope.
>   any suggestions or comments are welcomed.
>
> thanks to all
>
> Charles in wilmington
>
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