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Perspex Mirror..


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I personally doubt it but I have seen some mirror vinyl that can be smoothed over most shapes if heated with a hair dryer. It's quite tricky to do unless you've had experience with vinyl before, I worked on car graphics for a few years so I'm quite good at it....most people end up wrapped in the stuff. when it's heated it gets very soft & stretchy & the glue gets really sticky, the trick is to use a little water on the back so that the glue doesn't stick until all the water has been squeezed out.

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Thanks, however I was looking at the morror vinyl alternative earlier, but basically a company that sells them told me that this type of chrome-like vinyl will only last for a couple years or so, before it loses its mirror fx...That's why I was gonna go for a more permanent thing such as perspex...

My first choice would be actual chroming, but "do-it-yourself" chrome painting doesnt really turn out any good, and professional chroming is just too expansive...

Thoughts??

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Wood shifts around too much for chroming or any film finish. You could possibly vac-form a plastic substrate to the top, then a film of chrome or mirrored vinyl, and then perhaps some protective cover. I'm not 100% if you can vac-form Perspex although you can do pretty much anything else with it....

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As far as I know, you can't laquer over aluminium or stainless or galvanised steel because they release a chemical which protects the surface from corrosion. To paint over such metals an etching primer is needed which eats through this barrier to produce a surface which can be painted.

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