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Does anybody have any experience with Mylar????

I have been given a roll of the stuff and want to make a Hall of Mirrors. I have all the MDF and bendy Ply ready to make the frames but I am pondering how to attach the Mylar.

I thought about using staples but then wondered if this would distort the reflections and then decided i would paste it to the frames using PVA but then realised that this might be a bad idea as im not much good at wallpapering and am worried about the bubbles and stuff. I havnt got an awful lot to be experimenting with so thought i would ask if any of u experts have used this stuff before and how???????

Cheers, thanx

Here's something that may help you:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4530101_make...se-mirror.html

One problem with gluing mylar to a surface. Is that it conforms to the surface. So, any imperfections on the surface will show in the mylar. I learned that with plywood and cardboard.

Have you tried wrapping it around, and taping it on the back? Or take a sample of it and see if you can shrink it with a hair dryer.

Spirit Halloween is using the mylar sheets in their Circus theme this year. They just created a slight bend and stapled the edges where the mylar met the wall. You can take a look for yourself if you have a local Spirit in your neighborhood. Do you guys have Spirit Halloween in England? If you do something like this for simplicity's sake, I would probably add some cloth down both sides to distract people from noticing the mirror not complete attached to a firm surface. You don't need to bend it much to get an effect.

I also thought sometime back and who knows where that I read someone using a piece of foamboard (the hardware insulation kind, blue or pink variety) for the frame support. They used a sander I think to cause the flat surface to have slight waves to it and then attached the mylar onto the foamboard so it had more support underneath. Probably added a frame of some sort on top of the surface.

Look for tips here on the Carnival Mirror website. They sell mylar just for this purpose and supply repositionable adhesive tabs for attachment.

Our local wal-mart has full length dorm mirror for sale 2 bucks each. Made of plexiglass heat with a paint stripper and away you go. I picked up 10 mirrors for a little over 20 bucks with tax.

How tall are the dorm mirrors? I didn't find them on their website.
Has anyone thought of using mylar space blankets? They're cheap, but I don't know if they are reflective enough.

Originally Posted by Pat-f

How tall are the dorm mirrors? I didn't find them on their website.
Has anyone thought of using mylar space blankets? They're cheap, but I don't know if they are reflective enough.

The thing I was going to try experimenting with next year was using some mylar foil wrapping paper rolls. Usually a color or print on one side but the backing is usually silver and pretty reflective as I seem to recall. Best time to buy would be after Xmas when that kind of stuff goes on sale. I don't have any handy right now otherwise would take a closer look at it as potential cheap "mirror" mylar.

These are 4' tall little over a foot wide. 13.625 in w x 49.625in h x.365 in deep Made by mainstay. They were in the clearance section along with some 2x2 mirrors. Mine have orange plastic edging but there was pink, purple, and a light blue.

Yeah, we bought about 20 of those dorm mirrors this year..are you sure you can bend em' though ? Our's bent slightly when attaching them to a wall..but my actors broke two last weekend and they seemed to be real glass and not the plastic stuff I thought they were. :?

I'm not positive. They are really flexible was pretty sure they are made out of plexi glass of sorts. I'll heat one up tomorrow and see.