awarner and I just got some NOS glass for our RFMs. It had the screen printed gradient on it that needed to be removed with paint stripper.

So apparently the process of making the glass was to screenprint a coating wherever they didn't want the mirrored stuff to stick.

So I'm not sure that the mirror itself was less tinted, but rather there were little dots that got bigger to do the gradient type stuff.

I should have taken some photos while we did it. The paint stripper stuff hurt like hell when it got on my hand too!

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The stripper didn't damage the gradient at all. I was worried about the same thing. We actually had three sheets of glass in case we screwed up one of them, but the stripper worked fine.

We just dabbed it on with a paintbrush, waited about 10 minutes, then used a squeegy to pull it off the glass easier. Use a little more if a spot needed some more. Then I think we used a little mean grean to try and get some of the paint thinner muck off. Followed by about 5 or 6 rounds of glass cleaner.

The stuff we used was in an orange metal bottle. I'll see if I can get the real name of it, but we got it at home depot.