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Jim said I could be pressing the fibers too hard against the sandpaper, spinning the wheel too fast, or not changing the sandpaper enough. Something must be different because the fibers did not flare during the summer when Micah was polishing.
Jim said I could be pressing the fibers too hard against the sandpaper, spinning the wheel too fast, or not changing the sandpaper enough. Something must be different because the fibers did not flare during the summer when Micah was polishing.
Later we asked Dr. Jones about the flaring and he did not think it was a problem the way it was happening. If the the cladding is peeled back for more than 1 mm along the fiber, it is a problem, but that was not our situation. I went ahead with polishing bundle 407 and bottomed it out to 0.016".