[ATM] Need help w/18" Stabilite mirror

[Ric Rokosz]

--- Michael Lindner <mikell at optonline.net> wrote:

>
> 
> Actually, many of the posts to this list about
> cellular mirrors are 
> negative - reports of print through of the supports,
> delamination, poor 
> annealing, etc. I suspect that the Astromart folks
> don't jump on it 
> because they are afraid of these things, rather than
> that they are 
> ignorant. IMHO that's also the reason why so few of
> these have been 
> produced (fear, whether or not justified).
>

 I really do take great exception with the above
remarks.Considering I basically started the cellular
drive for atm's and have several cellular mirrors in
use from when I first made them in the mid - 80's and
my design was COPIED by Stabilite these blanks DO
work.

Some of the early Stabilite blanks do have problems
but don't illogicaly extend their defects to ALL
cellular blanks.It does depend on who made the blanks
and how they where made.

Stabilite went out of business for various
reasons.Most atm's cann't afford the real cost
involved in making cellular blanks out of Pyrex.Some
makers have turned to plate glass with a max thickness
of 2 inches,not a route I would go.

Ric


       
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