Hi Unfortunately ( at the rates you must use) the “blast it with a fire hose” approach is not very fast…..
Bob > On Feb 3, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Bruce Griffiths <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Fluid jet polishing perhaps? > > At least on fused quartz and optical glass there is no associated subsurface > damage. > > Bruce > > On 04 February 2018 at 14:05 Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > If you try “normal” machining techniques on a resonator, you are very > likely to create micro cracks in the material. Those are *really* bad for > aging and a few other issues ….. Much of the normal production flow of the > quartz is designed to keep the processes like sawing far enough away > from the “end product” that more gentle techniques can be used to remove > the (possibly) damaged material. > > Since the slots are pretty darn small, there isn’t a lot of room for this and > that > to be done when making them. There may well be better ways to do the > work today than back 20 or 30 years ago. It would still take a *lot* of effort > to validate a process. > > Bob > > On Feb 3, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------- > In message <[email protected]>, jimlux > writes: > > [1] Surprising to me is that modern dentists are highly kitted for > CNC-ing very hard ceramic materials at high precision. > > But, small "tooth sized" pieces - how big is your crystal. > > Well, they appearantly make a mouth-full at a time, so that is > covered... > > I don't think the dentist machines are precise enough though, > as I understood it, the state-of-the-art stuff has built in > laser-interferrometers etc. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > <https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > <https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
