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01/07/2008, 09:46 PM
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I havent excited exactly which route I an gonna go with. Well I bought some flashing from ace today and this stuff is alot tougher to polish than the little piece of flashing that I had laying around in the garage. I am gonna run by lowes and homedepot tomorrow and see what they have, I have been researching this and people are also buying solar tube/skylight extensions and using its material to make the reflector, they are 95% reflective. Which is probably shinier than I can get the flashing.
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01/07/2008, 11:03 PM
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You'll find the same at lowes I bought some that I was going to polish but could never get it to work I think they put some type of coating on the metal that won't let the polishing compound get to the actual metal to polish it to a mirrored shine I was thinking that I would prob have to get some from an actual sheet metal shop and have them bend it on their press then polish it.
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01/07/2008, 11:13 PM
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the flashing I bought from ace has a copper/gold coating on the back side, which can be buffed off and make it look super shiny, but its a real pain in the butt even with a electric buffer and metal buffing compound. I may just buy a solartube and cut it down.
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01/10/2008, 07:33 AM
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Isn't mylar used in growing illegal plant stuff?
 I kinda remember some news with mylar and MH for plants. Maybe a hydroponics place.
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01/10/2008, 09:44 AM
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01/10/2008, 11:47 AM
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I couldnt find mylar in Norman, Hobby Lobby claimed they had some but they really didnt. I bouth a solar tube extension from homedepot for $25 and cut it up to use it. It took some work, but I now have one reflector done and the are bad a%$. I have one light right over the center brace and it used to have a large shadow under it, now the shadow onlt extends about 5 inches into the tank and light reaches underneath it. its definately awesome to see the difference.
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01/10/2008, 12:02 PM
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Cool! I'm glad it worked out....
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01/10/2008, 12:11 PM
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lol, I will post some pictures of the reflector, its already over the tank so I can get some shots of it in the hood and pics of the light coverage and the templates I made. It will be this evening before I can get it done though
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01/10/2008, 12:30 PM
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No problem. I think this is pretty cool how it turned out.
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01/10/2008, 09:04 PM
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Tank showing coverage of the reflector. a 10k Ushio is in the middle and 20k XM's on the outside.
 Pic of the outside of hte reflector, I used aulminum tape to cover up the sharp edges so I wouldnt cut myself  Picture from underneath the reflector 
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01/11/2008, 11:10 AM
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Wow! That looks quite impressive! Thanks for taking the time to post some pictures.
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