>What exactly is happening here? Are they "baking" mirrors? It talks about
>furnace temps and then sows images of what look like mirrors.
They spin the mirrors which gives them something like the right shape. That
reduces the amount of glass to remove.
When I visited the University of Arizona facility they had recently
completed the mirrors for the large binocular. These were in the next room.
This is a picture of the lazy susan without the casting container.
http://www.robhawley.net/pictures/Az03/P5051878.JPG
Rob Hawley
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Received on Mon Mar 31 14:38:33 2008