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While I'm more acquainted with epoxy resin as an amateur boatbuilder, I =
know that our telescope (a 1.5 meter aperture Cassegrain made by =
Brashear-Contraves) has indeed epoxied components. Namely, the primary =
mirror (a full thickness f/1.5 paraboloid) stays in an isostatic cell, =
and many supports are actually epoxied to the mirror blank.

Dr. Giuseppe Bianco
Centro di Geodesia Spaziale "G. Colombo" Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
75100 Matera (MT), Italy
phone:+39-0835-377209
fax:     +39-0835-339005
e-mail: giuseppe.bianco{at}asi.it


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epoxy




While I'm more
acquainted with epoxy =
resin as an amateur boatbuilder, I know that our telescope (a 1.5 meter =
aperture Cassegrain made by Brashear-Contraves) has indeed epoxied =
components. Namely, the primary mirror (a full thickness f/1.5 =
paraboloid) stays in an isostatic cell, and many supports are actually =
epoxied to the mirror blank.

Dr. Giuseppe
Bianco

Centro di Geodesia
Spaziale "G. =
Colombo"

Agenzia Spaziale
Italiana

75100 Matera (MT),
Italy

phone:+39-0835-377209

fax:     =
+39-0835-339005

e-mail:
giuseppe.bianco{at}asi.it




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