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Cheap shipping of heavy glass from UK to US?
Chris Harrison:
Just a thought: does the light come apart? As mount and lens?
If it does, it could perhaps be sent as two surface mail "small packets", which would make it massively cheaper (with the risk of half of it getting lost!).
Chris Harrison:
Oops, scrub that, I just realised that you said that the lens weighs over 2 kgs. Sorry.
ian.macky:
Thanks everyone for the replies. I am trying to get an exact packed weight/size, then will get some more quotes from the places mentioned.
Chris, the lens is a single big solid piece of glass, so nuh uh.
Bernard, alas, I know noone on an air base or similiar. Will try to get international surface mail reinstated, but rumors of my influence are highly exaggerated. I will mention that Bernard C has been discombobulated, and hopefully the name-drop will have effect.
Will report back with a price comparison later, which ought to be useful to others.
And now just so you have something to gawp at, here's a pic of my new 3" square Berger "Lazalite" (tm) multiprism, in unused condition:
This isn't the piece I'm trying to ship, it's just the latest addition to the prism glass collection. It's a typical Selenium solarized "straw" color, which would date it to the 1920s, nu? Just after the Manganese era. Which reminds me, how did they eventually solve the de-colorizing problem without just adding something to produce the "opposite" tint to iron-greenish (which really produces a neutral "off-clear" instead of a true clear)? Pure sand deposits which produce clear glass are as rare now as ever, so how do they do it? Mn/Se both solarize, so do they just use something which doesn't? Rare earths?
--ian
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