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echo: atm
to: ATM
from: twentiethwave{at}hotmail.com
date: 2003-04-28 10:03:08
subject: Re: ATM Fw: to parabolize or not......II

From: "Bill T." 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Bill T." 


Dan Chaffee wrote:
>If the star test is so unclear at telling the optician what to do,
>why bother with it at all as a confirmation right before
>aluminizing?

There's the technical reason, and then there's the real reason...one's
fellow ATM's will surely line up to star test on first-light evening,  with
their slings and arrows carefully sharpened!  Mirror makers of integrity
will resist the temptation to bias the figure for this
not-quite-equilibrated event.

Bill T.




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