Re: RBT Mounts "Back in Black"

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:16:08 -0500
>From: P3D John W Roberts comments:
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>Judging from the CRC Handbook tables (see earlier posting), you should use
>polished silver! Of course then you have to make sure it doesn't tarnish,
>because that would turn it black. :-)
>
>As far as blocking transmission of light (in contrast to reflecting it),
>any color of opaque material either doesn't stop everything, or else it
>heats up just as much as the black (e.g. the heating of the black on the back
>side of the mount).

***************  Isn't that why very thin aluminum foil is used for heat
protection? It would both block and bounce the infrared away rather
efficiently, without needing polishing! ; -) I wonder if they could embed a
thin foil mesh in the white side to enhance reflectivity? Just a thought ...


Larry Berlin

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