From: "Jim Miller" 
To: "Bill Kelley" ,
        "atmlist" 
Reply-To: "Jim Miller" 


where can the peacock silvering kit be bought?

tnx
jtm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kelley" 
To: "atmlist" 
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 8:30 PM Subject: Re: ATM Re: Silvering






 ATM Re: Silvering - more info

I just finished silvering 16 mirrors- sizes 5" to 8" this
afternoon. Cost of silvering chemicals used from a 2 year old Peacock kit
about $1.00 per mirror. Prorating the cost of misc., materials such as
Kleenex, paper towels, distilled water,tri-sodium phosphate, alcohol, CeO
to prepare the mirror surfaces, etc., allow another $1.00. Total cost about
$2.00 and 20 minutes of work per mirror. The processing went smoothly and
the coatings are quite satisfactory.

In argenteum veritas!

Bill Kelley



> My experience - A silvered mirror kept covered will last for years, the
kit
> from Peacock is cheap ( I'll get about 200 - 5" to 8" done for $200 )
works
> perfectly and if kept refrigerated lasts for years, no mirror shipping
> charges or problems, instant gratification- coat it and use it at once,
high
> reflectivity, so easy to do that you can pop on a coat just for a star
test,
> in the ATM spirit where we do things ourselves, etc.,
> It's time for ATMers to revisit silvering!
> Bill

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