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Default Acrylic mirror sheeting

On 29/06/2018 12:31, Bert Coules wrote:

Just wondering if anyone here has used (or heard tales of) acrylic
mirror sheeting.Â* Can acrylic provide the same dead-flat mirror effect
as glass? Are there any particularly recommended makers and/or suppliers?


It can but the devil is in the details. To get it flat you have to
support it somehow and if you don't do it right the glue will rip the
mirror surface off the back. Especially true of the thinner stuff.

Also plastic expands and contracts a lot more than glass.

It is widely used by model makers.


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