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Looking for an online store that sells optic glass right angle prism's in Canada. Not 10mm ones. ><

Started Feb 10, 2020 | Questions
Darkmatterx76
Darkmatterx76 Regular Member • Posts: 174
Looking for an online store that sells optic glass right angle prism's in Canada. Not 10mm ones. ><

Hi, I have not been able to find a decent sized right angle, glass prism other than a store called www.ayva.ca/ which had a $100 min order and their shipping rates were crazy high. Amazon has some either, very tiny, (10mm) right angle glass ones, or a bunch of acrylic ones and a ton of equilateral ones which I hear, aren't as good for breaking a beam of light into the various colours of the spectrum.

I don't need anything huge or really expensive, just not acrylic, or 10mm in size. :/

Canada would be preferred due to duty, but if one can't be found up here, then as long as the total cost wasn't over $50, and it was of good quality, the US would be an acceptable 2nd option.

Thanks!

DM

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Tom Axford Forum Pro • Posts: 10,067
Re: Looking for an online store that sells optic glass right angle prism

Edmund Optics have a huge range of specialised optics components, but they are not cheap.

Heritage Cameras
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Darkmatterx76 wrote:

Hi, I have not been able to find a decent sized right angle, glass prism other than a store called www.ayva.ca/ which had a $100 min order and their shipping rates were crazy high. Amazon has some either, very tiny, (10mm) right angle glass ones, or a bunch of acrylic ones and a ton of equilateral ones which I hear, aren't as good for breaking a beam of light into the various colours of the spectrum.

I don't need anything huge or really expensive, just not acrylic, or 10mm in size. :/

Canada would be preferred due to duty, but if one can't be found up here, then as long as the total cost wasn't over $50, and it was of good quality, the US would be an acceptable 2nd option.

Thanks!

DM

Any of these do the trick?

https://www.surplusshed.com/search.php?search=right+angle+glass+prism

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Re: Looking for an online store that sells optic glass right angle prism

Glad I looked before posting duplicate link.

Edmunds is first place that came to mind.

Bernard Delley Senior Member • Posts: 2,041
what do you want to achieve ? gratings ??

Darkmatterx76 wrote:

Hi, I have not been able to find a decent sized right angle, glass prism other than a store called www.ayva.ca/ which had a $100 min order and their shipping rates were crazy high. Amazon has some either, very tiny, (10mm) right angle glass ones, or a bunch of acrylic ones and a ton of equilateral ones which I hear, aren't as good for breaking a beam of light into the various colours of the spectrum.

I don't need anything huge or really expensive, just not acrylic, or 10mm in size. :/

Canada would be preferred due to duty, but if one can't be found up here, then as long as the total cost wasn't over $50, and it was of good quality, the US would be an acceptable 2nd option.

you might consider gratings to break light into colors. 35mm slide gratings with 500 or 1000 lines/mm are dirt cheap on Amazon.  An the light breaking of the grating is easier math than a prism where you need knowledge of glass dispersion -- it that matters.

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