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Offline Skunksmash

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Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« on: April 18, 2010, 06:51:38 am »
Sometimes the glass on these old trucks tends to show its age. You get the little fine scratches, small pits, and those... well I don't know what to call them other than "age streaks". Where you can see some kind of streaks in the glass, but they don't come out with cleaning. You might even get some spots where you can tell that a previous owner didn't change the windshield wiper blades when they should have. That tends to leave a nice little path in the windshield glass.

I am thinking that with some polishing compound and a buffer, perhaps most of these little imperfections could just be buffed right out. Well maybe not the typical polishing compound, but something made for glass. Anyone here ever done this? And if so, what kind of results did you get? And how long did it take to get the scratch out? Which compound should I use?
« Last Edit: April 18, 2010, 06:54:32 am by Skunksmash »

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Re: Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 08:26:51 am »
Trucks on power block once restored a windshield with I believe something made by mother's.  But its a special compound and a couple steps to it. One thing they did say though was take your time if you rush then you build up heat and heat and glass dont match. The windshield was off that 70 or 60 light blue Chevy that had 3 on the tree turned out good
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Re: Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 09:41:00 pm »
Eastwood sells a glass polishing kit.
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Re: Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 11:35:43 pm »
I cleaned mine up with a fine cut polishing compound and a buffer on about 1/2 speed. I don't know if this was the right way to do this but it worked great on my truck.

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Re: Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2010, 07:49:41 pm »
I was thinking of trying some regular old polishing compound that I have laying around. I just thought that glass may be too hard for it to work.

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Re: Polishing out windshields and door glass?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2010, 04:43:48 am »
you should kind of worry about burning the glass
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