smart51
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 12:47 PM |
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How to polish scratches out of glass
I don't know how but my wife has managed to scratch the side window of her car when scraping frost off it. The scratches can be seen and felt
with a finger nail. Is there a way to polish out these scratches or at least make them less noticeable?
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ReMan
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 12:56 PM |
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Cant help with the solution, but most likely cause is diamond rings....
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 12:58 PM |
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or titanium rings!
This question seems to get asked every couple of months.
Might be some answers if you do a search
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skinned knuckles
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 01:21 PM |
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it can be done but it takes forever. last year some ar$e stuck a notice to my wifes car window with what must have been superglue. in an attempt to
clean/scrape off the residue with a combination of chisles and emery cloth she managed to make a right hash of it!
I started off with ultra fine wet and dry to cut the class back to the level of the scratches and then slowly, using a rotory polising attachment on
my drill and various cutting polishes (including T_Cut, autosol chrome polish and ending up with brasso). turnrd out fine but took about 5 hours all
in all.
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bassett
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 01:35 PM |
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Last time i was in machine mart i saw a glass polishing kit, came with polish and pads that fit to a drill if i remember correctly
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skinned knuckles
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 01:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bassett
Last time i was in machine mart i saw a glass polishing kit, came with polish and pads that fit to a drill if i remember correctly
I have used these before but i think they are really for polishing up where class has gone a bit dull. i dont think youll be able to get down to a
scratch that you can feel when you run your thumb over it.
would probably work well once you were able to get the scratch flattened but worth a go anyway as its very daunting working away at your window with
wet and dry!
[Edited on 7/1/10 by skinned knuckles]
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thunderace
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 02:05 PM |
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you cant polish it out i have tryed loads of stuff inc cuttingpast from an specs maker ,i think i tryed 7 diferent scratch removers and then gave up
and it was not a deep scratch.
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Grimsdale
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 02:59 PM |
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i used to polish glass at university for analysis, and they had to be perfect! I hand polished my samples with varying grades of SiC papers to about
600grit and the final step was to use Cerium Oxide as a polish. You can find it on ebay
[Edited on 7/1/10 by Grimsdale]
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 03:20 PM |
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if it doesn't work then you can get replacement from breakers quite cheaply (not a popular item).
Matt
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mediabloke
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| posted on 7/1/10 at 09:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Grimsdale
i used to polish glass at university for analysis, and they had to be perfect! I hand polished my samples with varying grades of SiC papers to about
600grit and the final step was to use Cerium Oxide as a polish. You can find it on ebay
[Edit: I love this place. You learn loads!]
Brasso has saved me in the past. It was the only thing to take small scratches out of mineral glass watch face. It worked a treat, so I'd have
thought it would be worth a shot. (Discovered this when I was a kid. Perfect timing - Mum was none the wiser! ;-)
Or maybe one of those nice windscreen-repair blokes might be able to fill / refinish it if it's deep?
[Edited on 7/1/10 by mediabloke]
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