Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-29 Thread aimcompute
You would certainly have a conversation piece at star parties... go ahead Bill... do it! Tom C. > Well, my wife remarked that the tube on my 8" Dobsonian scope looks a lot > like a giant oatmeal box. Maybe the oatmeal baffling would be quite > apropos. Would probably look cool if the white Son

RE: Flocking Material

2001-10-29 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Kent Gittings wrote: > Known variously as irregular surface baffling or random surface > baffling. Or Quaker Oats baffling if your brand conscience. Well, my wife remarked that the tube on my 8" Dobsonian scope looks a lot like a giant oatmeal box. Maybe the oatmeal baffling would be quite aprop

RE: Flocking Material

2001-10-29 Thread Kent Gittings
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Flocking Material Bill P. wrote: > Now ~here's~ a hell of a thing A trick I read of to limit scattering > inside telescope tubes is to glue a layer of oatmeal (!!) inside the tube, > then paint flat black. Allegedly works like a charm. Uggh! Bill, Yeah

RE: Flocking Material

2001-10-29 Thread Mike Johnston
Bill P. wrote: > Now ~here's~ a hell of a thing A trick I read of to limit scattering > inside telescope tubes is to glue a layer of oatmeal (!!) inside the tube, > then paint flat black. Allegedly works like a charm. Uggh! Bill, Yeah, I'd probably rather live with a little flare . --Mik

Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-29 Thread Dan Scott
Shel wrote: >Anyone know where I can get some flocking to line a few lens hoods? >-- >Shel Belinkoff Hi Shel, You might try looking here: http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/black.html . Discusses various approaches other have taken. Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-D

RE: Flocking material

2001-10-29 Thread Mick Maguire
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Re: Flocking material

2001-10-29 Thread Camdir
In a message dated 28/10/01 02:38:37 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << M. le Cott wrote: > Just a thought, but what about that stuff model railway buffs use for > grass texture, perhaps painted black?? >> I believe it was sawdust, or some such. Way back when. KR peter - Thi

Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-28 Thread Cotty
>M. le Cott wrote: > >> Just a thought, but what about that stuff model railway buffs use for >> grass texture, perhaps painted black?? > > >That's a hell of a thing to do to a perfectly good lens shade. > >- --Mike Actually, thta's given me a great idea for a modification. Watch this space ;-)

Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 26 Oct 2001, at 10:24, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Anyone know where I can get some flocking to line a few lens hoods? Hi Shel, Floc (the abbreviation of flocculus) as applied to photographic equipment I believe is generally a short synthetic hair like material which is sprinkled on a surface

Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-26 Thread lbparis
I looked through my Micro-Tools catalog and could not find any flocking material or flocking paper but you may want to go to: http://www.micro-tools.com Then select the USA and look in the leftmost column for restoration supplies. I saw various sizes of light baffle material that may possibly

Re: Flocking Material

2001-10-26 Thread PAUL STENQUIST
Hi Shel, Back in the sixties, people did some absolutely atrocious things to automobiles with paint that produced a velvet look and texture. It was flocking terrible stuff. I know it came in black, and I bet someone still sells the wretched stuff. And while it may be awful for almost any applicati