Why is it so gosh darn expensive? $25.50 for a 6" x 8" piece! This is unbelievable. What is so special about Mica?
<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ June 13, 2006 08:27 PM: Message edited by: 1953 Chambers ]</font>
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Why is it so gosh darn expensive? $25.50 for a 6" x 8" piece! This is unbelievable. What is so special about Mica?
<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ June 13, 2006 08:27 PM: Message edited by: 1953 Chambers ]</font>
Probably the main reason is the mica miner's union has a very strong hand at the bargaining table. Those mica miner's union bosses don't take any schist from management, that's for sure.
That 6x8 pice does a few stoves I believe. It is splitable AND cutable. Do a search - there were many references a few months ago - people were able to sell pices to one another on the Board.
This Board is so sleepy lately - I don't know where everyone is - there is usually so many more answers (and helpfull ones, at that) from the old timers and folks with experience.
You might even want to ask if anyone has a small piece of mica to sell.(also known as eisenglass).
Good luck