In August 2019 Peter Pekurar demonstrated the process of silvering a 12.5" mirror at the Stellafane Convention of amateur telescope makers in Vermont using our chemicals.
We have helped customers silver mirrors for single lens reflex cameras, lasers, curved glass and thin plastic film for solar reflectors and glass slides for medical research.
Please let us know if we can help you create or recreate your scientific instrument.
The January 2020 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine includes articles by Peter Pekurar, Howard Banich and Rob Brown, members of the informal Oregon Scope Werks group of amateur telescope makers.
The topics covered are:
The best known telescope silvered with our chemicals is the 70" diameter mirror that Mike Clements first silvered in 2013 and later donated to the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex run by the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. A Google search for "Mike Clements worlds largest amateur telescope Utah" provides a wealth of information on this achievement. Mike silvered this piece using our Pump Spray Silver Kit.
Your scientific mirror does not have to be large. Ron DiGiovanni used pouring silver and our 3-D Mirror Kit to re-silver 6 prisms for his bubble sextants.