He made adaptors to convert Barker's RAS-thread eyepieces to push-fit, to the latter's delight, plus a fine spherometer for the mirror-maker Jos Slater. |
It is well to control this process by means of a spherometer, so that the desired radius may be approximately reached. |
The glass is ground with emery to the correct spherical figure as given by a spherometer. |
The spherometer is accepted as the sole guide in obtaining the proper curvature. |
The squares of glass are cemented to the roughing tool, and this is ground to the spherometer by means of the counterpart tool. |
The spherometer is accepted at all stages of the process as the final arbiter as to curvature. |