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RE: Cheap Mirrors
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Robert May on June 23, 2000 17:03:38 UTC |
Everybody else has given places for finished mirrors. The question that I have is - why not make the mirror also? You can go down to the local window glass place and get 12-25mm thick glass (go for about a 1:8 - 1:10 ratio of diameter of the mirror to the thickness of it) and get pieces of glass. You can then easily make circular blanks out of that with a coring tool and you will also want to get a concrete saw blade (diamond grit saw) and make a curve generating tool with it. At this point, you can give the blanks to the students and have them make the mirror in a few weeks and then do the rest of the telescope in the rest of the classes. You could probably even do the preliminary work of coring and curve generation as the first 2 classes for the year.
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