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Cheap reflective strip?

d4j0n

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I'm looking for a cheap material to use for a strip of laser reflective mirror.

The object of my design is to have two parallel mirror surfaces that will bounce a laser beam back and fourth. The beam "grid" will be around 5'x5' with beam spacings of 1". If you haven't already guessed, this is gonna be a sensor that will detect an object >1" wide moving through it. As long as the beam makes it to the end of the grid without excessive distortion it will be fine, a simple light sensor is on the other end.

I've tried mylar but it's terrible after the first reflection. I have a polished steel credit card case that works great but I'm lost on where to find a long strip of the material. I'm thinking of trying out some "mirror tapes" but I fear I'll run into distortion much like mylar.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperBrite-...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item5893915d7d
 
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Grab some old flatbed scanners, they have nice long, high quality first surface mirrors in them.

Image from another thread on this forum:

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d4j0n

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Unfortunately I would have to get a hold of quite a few for the ~20' total length I need (2 sensors 5'x5' each) :yabbem:
 
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5ft x 5ft? Maybe mylar reflective film? It won't be like a flat mirror, but will be reflective. Otherwise, you should look into surplus mirrors or reflective acrylic sheets or something -- not especially cheap, but at those sizes it's about as good as it'll get.
 




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