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Re: Is this an example of offsetting?
      07/03/08 06:03 PM

Robert, from what I remember, it was around 1/4" and the mirror's minor axis is 1.4". I cannot remeasure it because I already removed it from the spider and cleaned off the sticky tape. This would mean that it is nearly 1/6 of the minor axis.

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* Is this an example of offsetting? DSalters 07/02/08 06:15 PM
. * Re: Is this an example of offsetting? Jason D   07/02/08 09:59 PM
. * Re: Is this an example of offsetting? DSalters   07/03/08 06:00 PM
. * Re: Is this an example of offsetting? DSalters   07/03/08 06:03 PM
. * Re: Is this an example of offsetting? Vic Menard   07/03/08 07:47 PM
. * Re: Is this an example of offsetting? Houdini   07/02/08 08:08 PM

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