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After some failed attempts, I aligned the fibers about right by holding them on the table in approximately the dark box position. Then I used the plexiglass stop plate to align them, but they were still not in the right position when I put them on the popsicle stick. I finished the alignment by pushing the fibers against the alignment jig while holding the slender part of the jig so it wouldn't break.
After some failed attempts, I aligned the fibers about right by holding them on the table in approximately the dark box position. Then I used the plexiglass stop plate to align them, but they were still not in the right position when I put them on the popsicle stick. I finished the alignment by pushing the fibers against the alignment jig while holding the slender part of the jig so it wouldn't break.
I put the fibers in the dark box and put them in the chimneys, but I may have bumped the laser while doing that, so the dark box might not work anymore. Somehow the curtain had fallen and I was trying to put the fibers in place with the curtain down. I had trouble finding the hole for the threaded rod on the popsicle stick too. From now on I will have to make sure the curtain is up before carrying the fibers to the dark box. I did raise it before taking the fibers out to bring them to the conference room. It must have fallen while I was working there.
2/23: I tried to run a fiber test, but the charts came up blank.
I continued polishing the sci-fis. I have some problems with measuring with the feeler gauges. It seems that while polishing there is less space for a feeler gauge than when the wheel is at rest. For example, with the 0.25" feeler gauge in place, the fibers don't touch the paper as the wheel is spinning.