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ChadTower:


Erm, yeah, you just took a small issue and turned it into a giant issue.



nostrebor:

Randy is right on. Your best bet is to tape it together from the backside as best as you can, live with it for now, and look for another one. any polishing /glueing /heating /voodoo you perform on it at this point will just render it completely useless.

I also suggest kicking the guy who moved it for you in the nuts. Perhaps you could contract Chad to do it.

ChadTower:


If it is close enough I will do it for free since he would have robbed me the chance to play a Holosseum.

J-Rod:


--- Quote ---Also, transmissive optics are very different from reflective ones.  You can get away with murder on the transmissive ones, but not reflective or "imaging" optics.
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Yes, I must have glossed over that. I guess what I am not understanding is why the relfective properties aren't repaired by a gloss finish compound, that fills the scratches and fixes divergence. I mean you are the expert on optics apparently, Randy so I'll yield if you can help me understand why it is that filling a void with a transparent compound wouldn't help it reflect better.

Obviously it likely won't work anyways if the crack is so bad that it cannot be fashioned/glued back into a perfect shape. It also might  be a long shot hand sanding, since you wouldn't be able to bend sandpaper to smoothly sand the inside of a concave shape. You'd have to find some abrasive cloth or somesuch. My main point is, he's going to have to find a replacement anyways, so why not give it a try?

DrewKaree:


--- Quote from: nostrebor on December 20, 2005, 02:48:14 pm ---
I also suggest kicking the guy who moved it for you in the nuts. Perhaps you could contract Chad to do it.


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You're such a jag.  Didn't you read before where I SAID he's gonna have to start learning how to do stuff himself?  Farming out a kicking is NOT helping him at all.  No soup for you, bad post-fu ;D

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