Mirror Making Kit

Every step during the manufacture and packaging is controlled to ensure the high purity and scratch free qualities sought by the precision optical worker.

Mirror making kit. 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. Starting from a rough glass blank you can obtain an almost perfect parabola with surface errors in the range of 20 to 60 nm. Choose a picture frame with a design that you like. View our full collection of mirror frame kits below and choose the frame that s right for your decor.

We cut the frame to fit your mirror s measurements and send a kit with everything you need for easy installation atop your existing mirror. Shop by frame color. The tubes that connect the wand to the bottles are 3 feet 0 9 meters long. Accurately graded sizes from 40 to 500 grit are stocked.

This kit contains the basic supplies for creating your own silver mirror on glass. Remove the glass panel from a picture frame. Use our hand powered spray silver system to silver any size or shape. Set the glass panel down in a well ventilated area.

Start with one of our telescope mirror kits. The kit contains enough silver to cover approximately 260 square feet 24 square meters. Dove white contemporary complete installation kit. This kit includes all of the items needed to silver glass or other high gloss non porous surfaces.

Spray silver drip silver pump spray silver and our master spray silver kits. They are great for beginning and expert amateur telescope makers alike. Skip to main content skip to main navigation lowe s covid 19 response. Willmann bell s silicon carbide is the very best optical grade available.

Clean the glass panel with rubbing alcohol. Buy a can of. Included in the kit are instructions for the basics of pouring silver mirroring. 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.

The mirredge kit contains everything needed to frame an existing vanity mirror up to 60 in. 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. Pouring silver takes 5 minutes to produce a silver mirror giving you time to control the result. Make sure this fits by entering your model number.

Shake up your can of mirror effect spray paint. Method 1 making a basic mirror 1.