Windscreen scratch removal

[DeWitt Harrison]

Eastwood http://www.eastwoodcompany.com/ sells a polishing kit
for removing fine scratches in glass. Item-no 40011, $33. Works well
on windshield wiper haze and very fine scratches - btdt - but you'll need
a good electric polisher to make much headway since it's a one-step
process, i.e. the polishing compound is very fine and removes material
slowly. The Eastwood rule of thumb on the likelihood of success is that
if you can feel the scratch with your fingernail, it's too deep to polish
out. That's mostly because you would ruin the optical flatness of the
windshield if you remove enough material to touch a scratch that
deep. I have seen ads for auto glass scratch repair. Maybe there
is a way to fill deeper scratches.

DeWitt Harrison
Boulder, CO
88 5kcstq

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:31:27 +0000 (GMT), sholtby at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 >The wiper rubber parted from the blade on my car the other day and has
 >made a 4 inch scratch at the top of the screen. I've searched the web and
 >a common means of scratch removal its to use a toothbrush and tooth paste
 >(not the gell type). It does work quite well but I was wondering if anyone
 >has any other suggestions.
 >TIA
 >
 >Simon Holtby