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Old 1st August 2017, 09:29 PM
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Question Resilvering rangefinder mirror

Has anyone tried to resilver a mirror in any photographic equipment?
I have a Kalart rangefinder from a Speed Graphic with a mirror that has lost its silver coating and wonder if recoating is possible.
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Old 2nd August 2017, 08:23 AM
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Vacuum Coatings in London will re-silver mirrors, I get my SLR mirrors (large format Thornton Pickard Ruby Reflex) from them. These days it's Aluminium rather than Silver but equally as good.

Alternately you can get new front coated mirror glass from Edmunds Optical. A Kalart range finder has two mirrors the first is only partially coated (semi-silvered) the other fully. They sell both.

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Thanks Ian,
Your reply is very helpful.
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