Stripping the Aluminum Coating from a Telescope Mirror
To prepare a mirror for refiguring, Gordon Waite shows how he removes the old reflective aluminum coatings. Gordon used ferric chloride to eat away the shiny aluminum without damaging the underlying glass.
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Grinding a 25-Inch F3 Telescope Mirror: Thinning and Flattening the Back
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How to Aluminize Telescope Mirrors
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Making Lenses with a CNC Router Part 1
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America Copied Germany’s Jerry Can — But Missed The One Genius Detail that Made All the Difference
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Stripping the aluminum coating off a 10' Telescope mirror
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awesome lapidary trick for homemade nova wheels / use on flat laps like diamond pacific all-u-need
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Polishing a Small Spherical Mirror Surface on a Glass Blank
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Why Didn’t I Know This! Spray WD-40 on Foam and Fix Any Broken Plastic in Your Home!
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Preparing to Grind a 22" f/4.0 Telescope Mirror
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silvering a telescope mirror
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Grinding a 25" F3 Telescope Mirror: Chamfer and Edging
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How to grind a mirror for a telescope
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Silvering of telescope mirror | How to make reflector telescope |Step-6| Large12" telescope making
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DIY Carbon Fiber Telescope Tube
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The Weird Physics of Sandpaper (Why You’re Working Too Hard)
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12.5" Dobsonian Telescope Build
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Applying the Tin and Silvering Solutions
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Home made Vacuum chamber 2.0 for telescope coating mirror
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Hogging out a flat surface blank for a 40 cm f/4.5 mirror on the Mirror-o-Matic
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