From: "Russell Jocoy" 
To: richas{at}earthlink.net, atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Russell Jocoy" 






>From: "Richard Schwartz" 
>Reply-To: "Richard Schwartz" 
>To: 
>Subject: ATM Sticking Together
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:14:53 -0700
>
>Subject article appeared in may issue of OE Magazine (published by SPIE).
>It deals with LTB: "Low Temperature Bonding" of glass and
like materials.
>You can bond ribs to thin glass to form ribbed mirrors, and you can bond
>layers of thin glass to form a thicker piece.   The bonding is permanent.
>You don't need a kiln.
>
>Here is how to do it:
>
>"...the bonding surfaces are cleaned and chemically primed for joining
>using standard wet chemical or plasma processes.  Following chemical
>activation, the materials are brought into a class 100 clean box [I guess
>that means no dirt] where joining is initiated by sandwiching a small
>volume of bonding solution between the two mating surfaces.   The bonding
>solution reacts with the substrate surfaces to form a bond that can become
>rigid within a few hours or even a few minutes depending on the process
>conditions..."
>
>Simple.  All you need to do is figure out what they mean by "chemically
>primed", "activation", and what the bonding solution is.
 (They tell you it
>is "inorganic aqueous-based bonding fluid.)     Oh, yeah, this works for
>surfaces polished to match withing 1/3 wave (well within our capabilities).
>
>So, what's the magic juice and the meaning of the undefined words
>"chemically primed" and "activation"?   If we
discover this, we don't need
>a kiln to build ribbed mirrors.
>
>. . . Richard




("atm{at}shore.net")

    Richard,
         What a great concept..  Maybe the people doing this process don't
want us to know what these
mysterious agents or chemicals are... I think this calls for some detective
work to find out the magic
potion.  Exactly where is this process being done? Is it possible to
interogate or bribe employees?
                                           Just a thought, a devious
thought, but a thought none the less.
                                                 RUSS JOCOY
("atm{at}shore.net")

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