Optical rouge

[dbo...@mindspring.com]

Roger:

I see that you mentioned cerium oxide and optical rouge in another
thread. Are you a telescope maker?

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On 14 Jun 2006 13:51:52 -0700, "dbo...@mindspring.com"
<dbo...@mindspring.com> wrote:

If so, I'm going to be very pleasantly surprised to see that there are
at least three of us here.

Jon

[raylopez99]

Roger also claims to be from a distinquished family of inventors from
California.

If so, here are some of his illustrious kinfolk (or people who share
the same surname and living in CA).

RL

Coppock; Christopher C. (La Jolla, CA)
Weeder tool attachment
Bathroom fixture gasket apparatus and method
Toilet fill valve with improved noise abatement

Coppock; Richard A. (San Jose, CA)
Projection optical lithography apparatus
Bulk wave bragg cell

Coppock; C. Wallace (Petaluma, CA)
Game of chance to be played in conjunction with a baseball game

[raylopez99]

Well, it's amazing what you can find with the internet. I can do a
quick psychoanalysis (with the emphasis on psycho) on Roger, and
conclude the following: since Roger lives in a nice part of San Diego,
nay, a very nice part of San Diego, he is probably feeling guilty for
consuming too much of the earth's resources. After all, prosperous
people use lots of energy (typically 10x the 1kw/person that developing
country people use). But instead of simply crediting his good fortune
and/or good genes, brains or a little help from his friends, he goes
off on a crusade (not unlike Warren Buffett and Bill Gates) to make the
rich part with their money. To this end the bit on GW and small
footprint dovetails nicely with his guilty (Judeo-Christian)
conscience.

Yes, Roger is rich and hating it. Like Marx, Lenin, Roosevelt (both of
them), and other rich and powerful folk, they want to unburden
themselves by making life miserable for the rest of us trying to scrape
together enough to live on, much less to live in Roger's zip code.

RL

[Roger Coppock]

Yes.
As a boy of 13, I ground, polished, and figured, the mirror of a
reflecting telescope. I built my own testing gear, a Ronch tester,
(faster than Foucault and no masks to fiddle with), and telescope
mount, clock drive, mirror mount, and telescope body.

Years later, professionally, I supported the development of robotics
for the automation of the construction of eyeglasses, telescopes,
and various other optical instruments.

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On 14 Jun 2006 15:00:37 -0700, "Roger Coppock" <rcop...@adnc.com>
wrote:

>As a boy of 13, I ground, polished, and figured, the mirror of a
>reflecting telescope. I built my own testing gear, a Ronch tester,

Ronchi gratings.

>(faster than Foucault and no masks to fiddle with),

And you can get a more accurate figure, used well.

Jon

[Roger Coppock]

raylopez99 wrote:
> Yes, Roger is rich . . .

Roger WAS rich, then he got cancer, the 1 million dollar death. :-(

[raylopez99]

Well I hope you outlive it, modern science being what it is and all.
Get well soon Roger old boy.

You realize that a lot of what I say here is flame bait I hope.

But not the stuff about "further research is needed". I firmly believe
that.

RL

[dbo...@mindspring.com]

I also did my own 6" mirror when I was 14, took me forever. Oddly
enough, today (at 50 yrs old) I daily use what i learned then.

[dbo...@mindspring.com]

I make x-ray optics from Ni surfaces. I found that although rouge
produces a nice polish on electroless Ni, it seems to react with the Ni
to cause pitting. Most of the time I simply use .1 micron diamond
slurry for polishing.