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One of the previous threads covered the removal of film from glass and the risks of using Brasso to clean it. Is there any way of polishing out scratches from glass? I have scratches on a side window that look like they might have come from an attempted break in using a coathanger or something similar. Does anyone know of a product or service that could remove or reduce these?
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I use toothpaste (yes, you read right) on my spectacles and don't get the "opaque" effect caused by coarser abrasives like Brasso. I've not tried it on deep scratches, but it gets out the fine ones - works on watches too.
Chris
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The old idea was to use jewelers rouge for fine scratches. I've found that Jif is also good for cleaning scratched plastic watch glasses. It's not spirit based like Brasso, so may not leave the film.
regards
John
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Robin,
If your scratches are like the ones you sometimes see on a side window where grit in the rubber has scored it for years I think you're on a loser.
In my experience glass behaves much like paint. Rubbing down with ever finer materials to produce a decent finish. I think the problems mentioned by Chris, and thinking of spectacles, is that plastic/perspex materials do not tolerate this treatment so well.
Don't they make optical lenses from glass that is ground then polished to the eventual "glass like" finish.
Jiff is quite harsh (but less so than the old days) and might need metal polish to buff the glass back.
I once bought a car that had been standing in a farm for a year. Wasn't very expensive so I used Jiff to clean the worst ingrained dirt before washing. Thought it would be much like t-cut without the effort. Did the job but when it dried all the little scratches were there and didn't polish out.
David
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Don't you guys watch TV? Too busy polishing the hubcabs on your Morris Minors, or mopping up LHM from the garage floor I suppose.
Jif, not any more, it's now CIF.
probably complies with some distant European directive...
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Darcy,
Is that the same directive that made them take out all the abrasive content in case of claims from damaged designer gold plated sinks?
It's not like the old days. Had some trouble finding Zeebrite stove black for the range the other week, where will it all end.
David
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David,
Never mind the range, I bet you're old enough to have 'Put a tiger in your tank'
I was running a Beetle at the time, the one with no fuel gauge but a reserve fuel tank operated by a kicking a tap on the cabin floor. The fuel filler was under the bonnet so the tiger's tail was invisible. Curses!
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Darcy,
Bit hard to guess the age of lots here, unless a definite statement of "what I was doing when I heard on the radio that Kennedy had been shot" is posted.
I would think the age profiles for this forum may be a little higher than many others.
For me there is a bluring of experiences between the large amount of time spent with Dad in/around cars from perhaps 4yrs old and my own personal experience as a driver/owner. Hence some posts may give the impression that I was driving when actually riding shotgun. No deceit intended.
Yes I do remember the stickers but think they were more likely to be on my cycle at that time....mid 60's?
But I must say I haven't met anyone else of the same age who used to go with his Grandad to fetch all the water for the house from a cast iron tap down the village.
Further posts on "we used to live in a cardboard box and just eat potatoes" expected.
David
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anyone remember fake bullet holes transfers.........now the real things are easily obtained in certain parts of this fair isle.....
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Gwyn
Er, yes - just.
God, I love this site - a real trip down memory lane!
Glad it's not completely overtaken by young computer nerds, I reckon some of you guys out there have been mucking around with cars as long as I have, but of course, like David W I started very young!
regards
john
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Morris Minors should now be addressed as Maurice Egalitarians and hub caps re-named wheel disks........ (can't use the word re-Christened as this pre-judges the disks religion) Sorry Sorry Sorry
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Darcy Kitchin wrote:
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> Don't you guys watch TV? Too busy polishing the hubcabs on
> your Morris Minors, or mopping up LHM from the garage floor I
> suppose.
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> Jif, not any more, it's now CIF.
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> probably complies with some distant European directive...
No, it's because Johnny Foreigner has a problem saying "J". Comes out sounding a bit like "Hif"!
Mind you, the new form sounds very much like a disease I don't want...
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Martyn [Back Room moderator] wrote:
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> Darcy Kitchin wrote:
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> > Don't you guys watch TV? Too busy polishing the hubcabs on
> > your Morris Minors, or mopping up LHM from the garage floor I
> > suppose.
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> > Jif, not any more, it's now CIF.
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> > probably complies with some distant European directive...
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> No, it's because Johnny Foreigner has a problem saying "J".
> Comes out sounding a bit like "Hif"!
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Definitely the case for Italian - the letter "J" is rarely used.
"Cif" pronounced in Italian ("chif") actually sounds very close to the
old "Jif"
Any way my money's on Lenor being dropped in favour of "Downy"
/John
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won't try it on my 1957 perspex faced Rolex, thank you all the same
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Thats the same directive that made it Oil of Olay
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it has ended............................
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There used to be a product called "X " advertised on an old record (78 rpm) that my father had called "Radio Bolony". The ad went as follows or something like it: New "X" can be used as a sheep dip, gravy thickener, boot polish, drain cleanser and mouthwash. Smear a little on your face at night and you'll be amazed at your changed appearance in the morning ,AND IT SCRATCHES WITHOUT CLEANING! I agree with Dave Woolard,even if you were to try anything ,even good old "X" you will be polishing away for the next thousand years, after using up three million bottles of useless "X", 17.5 million dusters,not to mention 13 million replacement wrist joints which will be available under "body Parts" within 500 years time,when you will just, but only just getting the first scratch out, while cursing to your great great great greatgrandchildren and asking them is it worth it? My god,there's nothing like trying.
e
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