27 Feb
2014
27 Feb
'14
4:36 p.m.
On 27/02/2014 21:47, David Riley wrote:
On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
> Well, good for you! I went rummaging around a bit
in my hellbox
> looking for several rolls of 3M diamond lapping tape that I picked
> up years ago, but no luck. The stuff is great--you can use the
> half-micron stuff on a scratched-up head and it would come out
> looking like new.
I mean... diamonds. But still. I suppose if I needed
it, it would
be worth $300 a roll, but I don't need it that badly.
You can buy small sheets of diamond lapping film fairly inexpensively.
Various grades are used to polish the ends of fibre optic connectors
after the glass fibre is terminated in them.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York