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Cheap 1st Surface Mirrors?

lamborgini8

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I had a little fun with my laser last night and placed around 20 little mirrors on the wall around my room and bounced the beam off each one, I have to say it did look awesome although after each mirror the beam seamed to get bigger and bigger and I ended up with a 5cm beam which is actually visibale in a room with no smoke and looks rather odd.

Where can I get really cheap 1st surface mirrors?
 





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Inside old 3.5" hard drives. The metal disk is a mirror. You might need some star tipped screwdrivers to get it out. Also the disk is very easy to scratch and get fingerprints on so be carefull holding it.
 
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pwnstar said:
Inside old 3.5" hard drives. The metal disk is a mirror. You might need some star tipped screwdrivers to get it out. Also the disk is very easy to scratch and get fingerprints on so be carefull holding it.
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Do laptop or Ipod hard drives have these disks?

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Yeah, they do. They just have tiny ones  ::)
800px-SixHardDriveFormFactors.jpg
 
lamborgini8

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Unfortunatly I don't have any hard drives laying around that I don't need...
 
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Jimmymcjimthejim said:
[quote author=pwnstar link=1228498949/0#1 date=1228511871]Inside old 3.5" hard drives. The metal disk is a mirror. You might need some star tipped screwdrivers to get it out. Also the disk is very easy to scratch and get fingerprints on so be carefull holding it.
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Do laptop or Ipod hard drives have these disks?

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Yeah, they do. They just have tiny ones ::)
800px-SixHardDriveFormFactors.jpg

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woooow :eek: where'd you get that on at the back, its HUGE :eek:

-Adam
 
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its not his if you look at your quot it shows its from wiki
 
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lamborgini8 said:
Where can I get really cheap 1st surface mirrors?
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I bought about 16 FSM a while ago from some surplus website in anticipation of building a lot of spirographs... never got around to that though. I think I paid like $30 for all of them. I'll sell ya 10 of them for $10 shipped (IIRC you live in the UK, which is fine) if you want, just PM me. They're 3.5cm diameter.. pretty small but effective.

-Kendall

edit: I remembered the website, Surplus Shed

http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/l10096.html

there's some.

and my mirrors have been accounted for now. sorry to anyone else that wanted them.
 
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The little dental mirrors Dentists use to examine your teeth are excellent first surface mirrors.
allelectronics.com has them for a buck each.
 
LarryDFW

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I have a large number of FS mirrors from Minolta DLP lens assemblies.

Mirrors are 1.5" x 2" and 2" x 2".

They have a plastic holder around the mirror for mounting.

LarryDFW
 
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flatbed scanners use fs mirrors (and other interesting stuff) that you can cut to size, i wrote something about this in the tutorials section.
 
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Someone commented "The card says "Copper backed..." which suggests that this is not 1st surface, but silvered behind the glass, protected with copper..."
 
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