I thought The Bell Jar was sort of a internet tie-in to the paper
publication. Is that still around?
I haven't kept up on the Bell Jar as they were heading into deeper
water than I could swim in and had progressed to projects that I
wasn't interested in.
I'm hoping that we can keep this forum mainly for the beginning
vacuum enthusiast. It surely doesn't hurt to have some of our
members that are well versed in the details and have years of
experience in vacuum work though! They are a great resource but I
find that the other web resources I'm finding are mainly for PRO's
with deep pockets. For instance, on one forum I asked a question
about glow discharge cleaning and got many replies from folks trying
to sell me hardware with beginning prices well over $20,000.
I probably won't have $20,000 tied up in my whole vacuum coating
system (including the cost of the building). I am a beginner, a
novice, it's a hobby and I'm just NOT interested in what happens on
the sub-atomic level or in using calculus to figure the details for
multi-layer coatings.
I just want to make the glass shiny!
Ken Hunter
