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- From: girling@cs.sfu.ca (Doug Girling)
- Subject: Re: F117 Gold windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.013808.15236@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1jp4iuINN7ub@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:38:08 GMT
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- In article <1jp4iuINN7ub@hp-col.col.hp.com> danl@col.hp.com (Daniel Lockhart) writes:
- >Has anyone done any gold windows such are used on the F117? I'm
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- I've not done it yet, though I have a `117 waiting in the wings as it were.
- Try using a bit of a "space blanket". This is very thin metallized mylar
- and is available in both silver and gold. Not a perfect reflector, bright
- light tends to shine through.
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- Somewhat thicker, but more appropriately transparent is to go to your handy
- hardware store, where they have thicker metalized mylar to be applied to
- house windows. This stuff is available in silver, gold, bronze and
- blarg-smokey. It has the advantage over a space blanket in that it is
- designed to be transparent. As for attaching it, there is supposedly a
- water-soluble/activated adhesive on the back -- there's a peel-off
- protected poly<mumble> layer on the back. (On the other hand, it could
- just be air pressure and/or electrostatic forces holding the film to the
- window, and the peel-off layer may be just to keep it clean...)
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- Good luck, no product comes with this guarantee,
- Doug
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