Mirror Making Kit
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Mirror making kit. W x 60 in. Using silver nitrate available online or. This kit includes all of the items needed to silver glass or other high gloss non porous surfaces. How to make mirrors by silvering glass.
This kit contains the basic supplies for creating your own silver mirror on glass. The mirredge kit allows you to frame existing vanity mirror sizes up to 60 in. The kit contains enough silver to cover approximately 260 square feet 24 square meters. Each kit comes with a telescope mirror blank and all the abrasives silicon carbide grits and white aluminum oxide powders cerium oxide polish and pitch to grind and polish it to your specifications.
The tubes that connect the wand to the bottles are 3 feet 0 9 meters long. But back in the victorian era aluminum wasn t available and so they made their mirrors using silver metal. Included in the kit are instructions for the basics of pouring silver mirroring. Aluminum oxide like silicon carbide is made in the electric furnace.
They are great for beginning and expert amateur telescope makers alike. Dove white mirredge framing strips 4 dove white decorative corner plates adhesive tape squares instructions. Supporting associates customers and communities. Bauxite aluminum ore coke and powered iron are combined heated cooled crushed treated to produce a uniformly shaped particle and finally graded.
Pouring silver takes 5 minutes to produce a silver mirror giving you time to control the result. Modern mirrors are made by depositing aluminum. Mirror kits we have three types of chemicals and three types of kits pouring silver sheet glass blown glass 3 d glass and mini silver kits. Starting from a rough glass blank you can obtain an almost perfect parabola with surface errors in the range of 20 to 60 nm.
This results in a nearly pure aluminum oxide crystal with a hardness of 9 on a mohs scale. Even though some builders prefer to buy commercial mirrors and fit them in a diy structure i believe that making a telescope mirror is probably the most rewarding part of the whole built.