Hello Andrew,
you are so right! Making large diameter (300 mm) grinding tools of large
radius of curvature (e.g. 6000 mm) was my reason to join this mailing
list. In fact, I turned some on my lathe almost 20 years ago with
steppers replacing the hand wheels and all driven by home made BASIC
Hey Kirk:
I used to work at a large optical lab. I'm not sure it's as off topic as you
might think. There are papers out there describing how to control glass removal
by nature of the stroke and grit. This requires a multi-axis machine. A rotary
table, and variable radius of curvature 'tile
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Speaker To-Dirt
speaker_2_d...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey Kirk:
I used to work at a large optical lab. I'm not sure it's as off topic as you
might think. There are papers out there describing how to control glass
removal by nature of the stroke and grit. This
