Abstract

Although an optical shop is seldom required to polish plastic, we recently polished several thousand pieces of Plexiglas, each 9 mm square × 61 cm long. The rods were held in wedges like type in a print shop. Grinding to size was accomplished on a vertical spindle surface grinder.

© 1973 Optical Society of America

Polishing Plastic—2

Frank Cooke
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Examination of the polished surface character of fused silica

A. A. Tesar, B. A. Fuchs, and P. Paul Hed
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Producing Highly Accurate Hemispherical Surfaces on Large Domes

Frank Cooke
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Improvement in polishing of fused-silica parts

Aleta Tesar, B. Fuchs, and P. Hed
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Simple Method for Machining Aspherical Surfaces

Alvin E. Sapp and Frank Cooke
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