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

["brandelorean" <brandelorean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Walt,

Are you currently making convex side mirrors?  And Martin, where are 
they definitely doing them at?  My side mirrors are all faded.

Thanks,

Brandon


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> 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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