Acknowledgements

This work was carried out at the AAO whilst QAP was on special leave from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Many people have contributed to the eventual success of Tech Pan at the UKST but the following people deserve special mention: Colin Humphries, Ann Savage and Malcolm Hartley. Without their early guidance and experiments the practical results reported here would not have been achieved. We also thank the AAO and PPARC for the staff support at the UKST and for use of the measuring machine facilities at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. We also thank Paul Cass for performing some of the Tech Pan developer tests and Malcolm Hartley for useful discussions. Finally we thank the referee Ann Savage for useful comments.

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