Call me a cynic but they might have been more interested in sellng you a new screen than advising on how to repair your
I have a scrath removing solution which estores old, damaged CD's and have used this on varous plastic items such as watch 'glasses' and sunglasses. Don't know if it works on glass but it's worth the £10 cost just to repair one old CD.
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In the 'olden days' there was something called jewellers rouge which was a very very fine grinding paste. The military use a nasty smelling fluid to polish the scratches off flying helmet visors. It is sold as a plastic polish and is made by Greygate Chemical Products, Fir Tree Lane, Groby, Leic. No postcode or phone number; and it is only for Perspex and Oroglass (whatever that is) so probably isn't going to help with glass but it could be used with a power tool polisher rather than hand polishing.
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GREYGATE CHEMICAL PRODUCTS LTD
4 Firtree Lane Groby Leicester LE6 0FH
Tel: +44 (116) 287 77 77
Fax: +44 (116) 231 19 44.
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Thanks for completing the info Mark! I had a bottle of the stuff but the contact info was incomplete and I guess I was too idle to look at Yellow Pages before I 'posted'!
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This company stocks jeweller's rouge and related compunds. Also what appears to be an interesting range of automotive polishes for special purposes. I've contacted them to see what they can do.
www.englishcustompolish.com/
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I have tried to remove scratches from glass in the past using Greygate Plastic Polish - and it didn't work! It's brilliant for perspex or CD's though.
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In the past I've tried jeweller's rouge, toothpaste, T-cut and other stuff without any success, despite hours of elbow grease. Please let me know if you find something that does the job!
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There's a simple reason for the difference - glass is a hell of a lot harder than a plastic. Most of the marks on a well-used glass screen are arcs from gritty wiper blades. Can't get rid of those either!
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