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Old 15-11-2008, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by leon View Post
you do not wrap mirrors.
Wrapping a mirror in clean ( ideally acid free ) tissue paper is perfectly safe , as long as you then place a cardboard disc over the tp plus some packing to stop the tissue moving against the surface during shipping. 99% of ceommercial optics would be shipped this way.

Resting a mirror on its chamfer at four pressure points to isolate the surface is far more likely to lead to damege.
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