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| Re: Alumnized Mirror Failure
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Robert May on September 4, 1999 00:00:12 UTC |
: two chips were expoyied back????? Am I to understand that you put epoxy on the glass to put some small chips bac onto the mirror? Yes, the epoxy will outgas and cause problems. The coater should have asked you about the problem if it was visible. It's better not to epoxy anything onto the mirror before it's getting coated. If the chips you are talking about just little 1/4" or smaller chips off of the edge then they shouldn't have been epoxied on as thier distortion of the image is insignificant to the mirror. You should let the coater know of any strangeness that you may have done to the mirror beforehand like an epoxy job. Bet that the haze is next to the epoxied areas. Send the mirror back to the coater and let him know what you did and to please fix it. If the chips are large, you might as well call the mirror a poor mirror and just live with it. I don't know what else to tell you but the coating job is bad and it may have been the epoxy, especially if the epoxied area is where the haze and other problems are.
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