Re: [DMCForum] Convex Mirrors [WAS] Re: Delorean TFT Dashboard

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They definitely do them walt. Although I'd be tempted to get a glass 
place to cut down my Xantia's one which has a convex piece on the outer 
edge of an otherwise flat piece of glass. I do have some cheap "blind 
spot removers" on my DeLor4ean anyway and althoguh they are cheap, they 
work well

Martin

Walter Coe wrote:

> James, I heard about this before (maybe it was from you) and
> then I asked someone else in England (I dont remember who)
> and they said it that it isn't done over there.
>
> If they really make new mirrors, are they glass?  It would
> take a special cutting/grinding machine to finish the edges
> properly.  So £45 per pair sounds reasonable for that.  But
> I wouldn't expect every branch store to have the machinery.
>
> The only thing close that I have seen on my side of the pond
> is a sheet of plastic mirror that you cut to your own shape.
> The optical quality sucks, and they are flat anyway.
>
> I am interested in acquiring equipment to make custom lenses
> for projects that I am working on.  If I have the tool to
> grind/polish the convex shape then I am half way there to
> adding a mirror finish to it.  So you see, my interest in
> these materials goes beyond the car hobby.
>
> Walt

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