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    How to make a mirror - GIF

    How to make a mirror.


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    That is not the whole process once the reflective properties are established and suitable a dull usually dark color is poured or sprayed over the first two applications this allows for the glass side of the mirror to become the side you look into.

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    I'v a few effed up mirriors I need to re doo, does walmart have that snazy liquid.....

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    Pop Mechanics form 1936 has a Shop Notes on doing this: https://books.google.com/books?id=Dd...page&q&f=false

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    The chemicals used in the last video above must’ve been different to that of the one before as the guy didn’t need any PPE

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    Hard to tell, in the last vid I cannot see whether or not he's wearing his OSHA-Approved flip-flops



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