[Chaos-l] Fwd: Glass for Making Telescopes.

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi all.  received the following in the club mailbox.  anybody up for  
a "big" project?

J.

PS:  i transcribed the list from a PDF.  If you want a copy of the  
original, please let me know.

J,


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> From: EEDesq at aol.com
> Date: August 8, 2008 10:33:34 PM EDT
> To: chaos at rtpnet.org
> Subject: Glass for Making Telescopes.
>
> I am writing on behalf of a friend, Keith D. Bell, who does not  
> have access to the internet. He has asked that I give you  
> information about some items which he has available in the hope  
> that someone in your club, or another similar organization with  
> which you have liaison, might have an interest in acquiring them.
>
> A list of items, prepared by Dr. Bell, is attached to this email.
>
> Should there be any interest in any of Dr. Bell's items he can be  
> contacted as follows:
>
> Keith D. Bell, PhD
> 1208 Kingwood Drive
> Raleigh NC  27609
> (919) 850-9591
>
> Should you have difficulty contacting Dr. Bell, or if you want to  
> contact me for any other reason, I am
>
> Everett E. Dodd
> 205 Sampson Street
> Raleigh NC  27609
> (919) 782-2886 H
> (919) 876-7355 O
> (919) 815-2321 C
>
> Should anyone have an interest in any of the items I should be able  
> to make photographs to email.
>
> Thank you.
>
> ------ transcript of scan ---

Telescope making glass available:

On 30" diameter 6" think Pyrex disk.  Asking price: $1100.00

Two pairs of 6" diameter Light Barium Crow (convex) and Dense Barium  
Flint (meniscus, concave side is close to curvature of convex LBC  
element).  good for making the objective lens of a refractor.

Seven sheets of 13"x13" x 3/4" St. Gobain plate glass.  The plates  
are almost optically flat.  They can be cut into disks for mirrors or  
to make optical flats.

One 10" diameter 2" think Pyrex mirror blank.

With the sole exception of the 30" disk, an reasonable offers for all  
the other items will be acceptable.


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