SH-350 Mirror alignment

[magicniner]

also don't use any form of plastic printed mirror mounts, you may as well make them from bluetac

Provided the operating temperature adjacent to printed mounts is within limits they should be OK, what's wrong with ABS mounts?

[andy_con]

Provided the operating temperature adjacent to printed mounts is within limits they should be OK, what's wrong with ABS mounts?

cos they aren't stable, ask anyone who works with lasers.

[Robin Hewitt]

...and cheap Chinese mirror supports are?

[magicniner]

I think it's a case of "horses for courses", you wouldn't use plastic mounts in most laboratory experiments or in most applications in industry but you'd likely have access to a machine shop and/or an enviable project budget ;-)

It's very easy to be sniffy about things that actually work but are to a lower engineering standard than you'd like if you've never had to work without the financial and technical means you are used to.

Why not make a set of mounts in good old fashioned Meccano?
Now there's a serious engineering material ;-)

- Nick