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Old 26-01-2013, 09:09 PM
Poita (Peter)
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I remember reading ages ago about a technique to melt glass and spin it to get the parabolic shape and then cool it slowly, the idea was to minimise the amount of grinding required to get the parabolic shape.

Don't know if it was ever commercialised though?
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