I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!

In article , stryped wrote:
I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

http://tinyurl.com/leebzr

Eastwood has a couple of different kits:
http://search.eastwood.com/search?w=WINDSHIELD


"stryped" wrote in message
...
I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!

David Courtney wrote:
Eastwood has a couple of different kits:
http://search.eastwood.com/search?w=WINDSHIELD


"stryped" wrote in message
...

I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!




I can testify that those kits work "slicker than snot on a brass doorknob".

I bought one a few years ago when son picked up a ten year old Honda
Civic with a few arc shaped scratches on the windshield that looked like
someone had run the wipers with a broken on missing blade.

It took quite a while to polish those scratches out, but the results
were excellent.

Jeff - Windshields are to look through, not at.

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in "plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Bob Swinney
"jeff_wisnia" wrote in message
eonecommunications...
David Courtney wrote:
Eastwood has a couple of different kits:
http://search.eastwood.com/search?w=WINDSHIELD


"stryped" wrote in message
...

I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!




I can testify that those kits work "slicker than snot on a brass doorknob".

I bought one a few years ago when son picked up a ten year old Honda
Civic with a few arc shaped scratches on the windshield that looked like
someone had run the wipers with a broken on missing blade.

It took quite a while to polish those scratches out, but the results
were excellent.

Jeff - Windshields are to look through, not at.

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

Eastwood also has a kit for polishing out plastic headlight lenses that
works really well... makes those hazy, oxidized lenses like new again.
(plastic lenses, boat windows, boat bimini tops, acrylic skylights,
motorcycle windshields, aquariums, Jeep and convertible acrylic windows, and
more).
http://www.eastwood.com/clear-plasti...ation-kit.html

"Robert Swinney" wrote in message
...
Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in
"plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Bob Swinney
"jeff_wisnia" wrote in message
eonecommunications...
David Courtney wrote:
Eastwood has a couple of different kits:
http://search.eastwood.com/search?w=WINDSHIELD


"stryped" wrote in message
...

I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!




I can testify that those kits work "slicker than snot on a brass
doorknob".

I bought one a few years ago when son picked up a ten year old Honda
Civic with a few arc shaped scratches on the windshield that looked like
someone had run the wipers with a broken on missing blade.

It took quite a while to polish those scratches out, but the results
were excellent.

Jeff - Windshields are to look through, not at.

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

On Jul 15, 11:23*am, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
Good information Jeff. *Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in "plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Jet fighter canopy polish. Got a couple of cans at the surplus
store. Similar stuff is available from plastics suppliers, TAP
Plastics was my main supplier when I was out in CA. Some of the
polishes used by body shops will work, too, car paint these days is
basically a hard plastic.

Stan

stryped wrote:
I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!

Get a proper windshield polishing kit.
Pay REAL close attention to the instructions, Especially the part about
keeping the slurry wet and keeping the polisher FLAT.

http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/glass.htm
20 bucks.

--
Steve W.

On 2009-07-15, Robert Swinney wrote:
Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in
"plexiglass", such as those on the eye guards of my bench grinder.

Well ... I have several Snap-On torque wrenches with "memory"
needles mounted into the "crystals" with a knob for resetting them.
They *all* had a lot of scratches clouding up the crystals.

I remembered something which I read a long time ago, and popped
the crystals off for easy access and cleaning, then took an electric
toothbrush with one of the old heads which I saved for such uses, wet
it, put on some toothpaste, and attacked the surface of the crystals.

It did a great job on everything except for a couple of
especially deep gouges on one of them.

So -- polish with toothpaste, then rinse, dry, and reassemble.

I had not tried this before, because my usual practice is to
make new crystals from Lexan sheet, but getting the needles out of the
old crystal and into a replacement looked like a real pain, so I opted
to try the toothpaste trick first.

Enjoy,
DoN.

--
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:28:47 -0400, the infamous "Steve W."
scrawled the following:

stryped wrote:
I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!

Get a proper windshield polishing kit.
Pay REAL close attention to the instructions, Especially the part about
keeping the slurry wet and keeping the polisher FLAT.

http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/glass.htm
20 bucks.

I checked out the MSDS on Eastman's Rhodite; it's the same Cerium used
in Caswell's product for only twice Caswell's price.

Kudos to Caswell!


--
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything
evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
-- Johann K. Lavater

Not of direct relevance for actually removing the scratches, but I saw a
terrific little trick applied by a water meter reader a while back: he
poured water on the meter. The refractive index of the water was close
enough to that of the plastic that the scratches just vanished. They
carry Coke bottles with a hole punched in the cap with a nail for just
this purpose.

Not a real fix, of course, but if you just have to see through it at the
moment...

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:23:30 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in "plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Bob Swinney

http://www.meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+M1008

Follow the link for the companion "cleaner" product. These products
are what the Air Force guys used on jet fighter canopies at Tyndall
AFB back in the '70's.

That said, plex is not expensive. I'd just replace them.

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:16:32 -0500, the infamous Don Foreman
scrawled the following:

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:23:30 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in "plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Bob Swinney

http://www.meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+M1008

Follow the link for the companion "cleaner" product. These products
are what the Air Force guys used on jet fighter canopies at Tyndall
AFB back in the '70's.

That said, plex is not expensive. I'd just replace them.

Ditto. Plexi tends to yellow and get a bit brittle over time, too.
Pricewise, the cost will be lower for new plexi.

--
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything
evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
-- Johann K. Lavater

8 oz for half the price of 16 oz... such a deal.
Kudos to Caswell's marketing department...Caswell's kit includes a
cheaper 2" felt bob, too.


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...

I checked out the MSDS on Eastman's Rhodite; it's the same Cerium used
in Caswell's product for only twice Caswell's price.

Kudos to Caswell!


--
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything
evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
-- Johann K. Lavater

"stryped" wrote in message
...
I am finally putting the 200 Dakota I got running with all of your
help on sale. One thing I noticed is there are scratches in the
windshied I cant get out. It looks like they are from the wiper at one
point. I tried rubbing alchol, fine steel wool and even some old
polishing compund I had layign around by hand. It made it better but
it is still noticable.

I have one of those polisher sanders layign around although I would
need a bonnet for it. WOuld this help? ANy tricks out there to fix
this at least to where it is not as noticable?

Thanks for your help!


Optical pitch lap, and a slurry of cerium oxide.

Steve R.

"Robert Swinney" wrote in message
...
Good information Jeff. Thanx!

This begs the question of how to remove (polish out) scratches in
"plexiglass", such as those on the
eye guards of my bench grinder.

Snip

Automotive cut wax.


Steve R.