From: "Greg Nuspel" 
To: 
Reply-To: "Greg Nuspel" 


This answers the how to strip a mirror question. Good research is learning
from your mistakes so you can make them into discoveries.

--Greg Nuspel

No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in
terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as
first love? - Albert Einstein


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Beccue" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: ATM: Please don't do this.


>
>
> I gave my 12.5" mirror to a buddy who works in a cleanroom for cleaning.
> He spent an hour under a fume hood carefully cleaning with various
> solvents and Q-tip.  It came out beautifully.
>
> He mentioned that next time, I might just try a normal dish washing
> machine with jet-dry or some similar surfactant.  So I popped a grungy
> old 8" mirror in the dish washer and tried it; no hot water and no hot
> dry.
>
> The result;  not a bit of metal remains.   Now I will send it out for
> recoating and get a perfectly clean surface back from the coaters.
>
>
> Steve Beccue
> steve{at}beccue.com
>
>
>

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