On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Ken Hunter wrote:
I thought The Bell Jar was sort of a internet tie-in to the paper
publication. Is that still around?
I haven't kept up on the Bell Jar as they were heading into deeper
water than I could swim in and had progressed to projects that I
wasn't interested in.
I've been thinking of picking up one of the printed collections of older
issues, but if they're into serious esoterica, I may reconsider.
I'm hoping that we can keep this forum mainly for the beginning
vacuum enthusiast.
Fine by me, because that's what I am!
It surely doesn't hurt to have some of our
members that are well versed in the details and have years of
experience in vacuum work though! They are a great resource but I
find that the other web resources I'm finding are mainly for PRO's
with deep pockets. For instance, on one forum I asked a question
about glow discharge cleaning and got many replies from folks trying
to sell me hardware with beginning prices well over $20,000.
Hahaha. I went to an auction in Boulder for a company that had made
micro-electro-optic devices, and they had a number of plasma cleaning
devices that they had home-made from microwave ovens, home-brew acrylic (!)
chambers and other such stuff.
I probably won't have $20,000 tied up in my whole vacuum coating
system (including the cost of the building). I am a beginner, a
novice, it's a hobby and I'm just NOT interested in what happens on
the sub-atomic level or in using calculus to figure the details for
multi-layer coatings.
Ditto!
- Gomez
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