What are you folks using as a peel away protector for signal mirrors?
Biscuits

Sticky back plastic

Mark

peel away sheets from electronic devices....

1) Like for the writing surface of a Palm Pilot?
2) That's enough protection?
Thanks,
Biscuits

yeah like the once on palmtops and other screans.
i use that on mine improvized signal mirrior for mine PSK, mine full sized once are protected in a zip-lock bag or a small square stuffzak.. never had problems with it.

What type of store do you get that stuff? Office hardware?

Computer stores or stores that sell PDAs may be a better bet. AFAIK amazon has it too.

Just a caution note. One of my plastic Rescue mirrors (Mil-Tec by Strum), came with sticky backed black plastic protective sheet. It had a removal tab and everything. I placed it on the mirror and carried it for about 2 years. I recently wanted to test the mirror and it took me about 30 minutes to remove the sticky plastic. It had essentially lost its removal characteristics. Once I had the black plastic off, I had to laboriously and carefully rub off the sticky residue to get a clear mirror.

I now carry this mirror in a zip lock bag only. The protective coating would have essentially made field use a huge pain, and the mirror was essentially out of service for quite a while before I could use it.

My Gerber mirror (now Ultimate Survival) came with a similar protective plastic that I fortunately never used.

I keep my Rescue Reflectors 2x3 in its heavy plastic bag in a Mission Wallet to keep it both handy and protected.

how about clear shelf-lining paper (actually plastic)? I use it for other stuff and it comes off pretty good, and it is thick. I have not used it on a mirror though, so i don't know about that specifically.

This may work well. I am not familiar with the adhesive used on this material. My guess is that the removable properties on the plastic I used changed with age, heat and pressure from keeping it in my coat pocket at all times. I would recommend a test, but for me I will not use any adhesive materials on my mirrors ever again, as I cannot predict the removal characteristics with time. I have found a good zip bag to provide adequate scratch protection. I would much rather have an instantly available mirror with a couple of minor scratches than one that may be impossible or require a long time to deploy in the field.

The static cling characteristics of the palm window protectors would be a good thing to try out, but again I would keep the mirror in a zip bag to keep off dust etc that could go under the cling protector and scratch up the mirror big time.