Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Can't find any pix after an extensive 9-second search. Will take some later on this week. Guy Brandenburg, Washington, DC My blog, mostly on Education in DC: http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/ My
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Guy Brandenburg
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating [2 Attachments]
Hmm. Mine doesn't seem to look like that. Have had zero problems with cooling of oil and so on. I could be wrong. WIll coat a mirror in the next couple of days and take photos. AND I will use a
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Guy Brandenburg
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Guy, I attached a picture ( build 248) of what oil vapor back streaming looks like in my chamber. The water got turned off to the coolant jackets and the thermal override did not kick in. The oil
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Aurigema, Andrew N. (KSC-ASRC-474)[Not Assigned] <andrew.n.aurigema@...>
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Guy, I have found that to get rid of really stubborn contamination you may need a wet wipe with a little CeO and using very gentle pressure on a wet cotton rag. A few circular wipes around the ( wet )
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Aurigema, Andrew N. (KSC-ASRC-474)[Not Assigned] <andrew.n.aurigema@...>
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Vladimir, Could you tell me the purity degree or lever the O2 and Ar gas you use! Thank's! Attila The Hun
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Attila <schneyolo@...>
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Vladimir, Neither the type of glass, nor the date of the last polishing, nor the vacuum level, nor the oil seem to me to be the source of the problem. We clean the glass, which is generally (but not
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Guy Brandenburg
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Yes, indeed, lots of variables. What do YOU use for the final drying, Vladimir? Guy Brandenburg, Washington, DC My blog, mostly on Education in DC: http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/ My home page on
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Guy Brandenburg
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Re: final drying of mirror before coating
Hi Guy, There are too many possible causes of that "weird residue": old glass surface, bad cleaning (both wrong materials and bad hands), bad vacuum quality, wrong ion cleaning.... What kind of glass
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Vladimir Chutko
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final drying of mirror before coating
Question to all: How do you perform your final mirror-drying operation before putting that sucker into your backyard or basement vacuum chamber? In our plain-vanilla mirror-coating operation at the
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Guy Brandenburg
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Re: Moderator activity...
If you have no other takers, I would be willing to assist as a co-moderator. I am a group owner or moderator of about 20 astro-theme Yahoo groups as well as a mod on Cloudy Nights so one more wouldn't
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Christopher Erickson
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Re: Moderator activity...
Ken, Yes, they got here. I totally forgot about them till you mentioned them again. I been making mirrors 100% of the time and have not even fired up the vac chamber in months. I am up to 18" mirrors
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Aurigema, Andrew N. (KSC-ASRC-474)[ASRC AEROSPACE] <andrew.n.aurigema@...>
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Re: Moderator activity...
Thanks Drew... I never heard if you received the rotary actuators and was able to use them or not??? I have an 8 inch that's polished but not figured that I may send your way sometime, possibly in the
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Ken <atm_ken_hunter@...>
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Re: Moderator activity...
Ken, Hope your leaving G-job is on your terms and not forced. I too am looking at layoff ( due to someone canceling the space program ) or I would take the backup slot. Any time you need to coat a
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Aurigema, Andrew N. (KSC-ASRC-474)[ASRC AEROSPACE] <andrew.n.aurigema@...>
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Moderator activity...
Greetings... I have changed the availability of the Group's Archives to allow non-members to access the past messages, perhaps this will cause a bit more interest in the Group and lead to a more
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Ken <atm_ken_hunter@...>
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Re: Coating System For Sale
Sorry I didn't see your question earlier. The coater is on eBay with no minimum and no reserve, ends 10/26 I believe. The link is in my other posting. Again, sorry I didn't see your question before!
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gwaitemirrors
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Re: Coating System For Sale
Hi, Everybody, I just put my coater up for sale on eBay... No minimum bet and no reserve, so it goes in five days! Here's your chance to get the major components of a coater, probably at a low price.
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gwaitemirrors
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Re: UV heater
Ah, cool, guess I learned something today.
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Gomez <gomez@...>
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INFICON instruction manuals
I am having INFICON XTM 300 for film thickness measurement. The orginal iintruction manuals has been lost. If any of our community member having these manuals, kinlfy send me the scanned copies to me.
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Zafar Iqbal
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Re: UV heater
Hi Guys, Thank's for the answers. Yes I was a bit uncertain. I don't want to heat up the chamber. Just want to desorb the water monolayer from the walls. So that is why I asked the UV lamps. I found
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Attila <schneyolo@...>
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Re: DP temperature critical?
Sometimes the DP temperature may be critical. You can not just loose the pumping speed, but also to get a strong oil backstreaming, so better to use the original heater. Usually variations about
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Vladimir Chutko
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