Windshield scratches (removal)

[DeWitt Harrison]

There are polish / applicator pad kits available such as the one from
Eastwood Co. which uses Rhodite as the cutting agent. These kits
can help with imperfections, such as wiper haze, that are too small
to be felt by a finger nail being dragged over the surface. They
cannot remove even tiny stone pits since removing enough material
to reach them would destroy the optical flatness of the glass rendering
the exercise futile. Fortunately, at least with fine Rhodite and similar,
you would have to labor mightily for hours and hours to do that
kind of damage. btdt.

The best option, if financially feasible, is a new windshield.

DeWitt Harrison
88 5kcstq

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:24:04 +0100,
    "rob hod" <rob3 at hod3.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>     Now that we're getting a bit of sunlight in the UK, I'm beginning to
get
> annoyed by various imperfections in my windsheild.
>
>     Years ago the received wisdom was that you got hold of something
called
> 'Jewellers Rouge' and used this to polish out imperfections.
>
>     Thing is I never tried to get hold of any, never tried it, and wonder
if
> there might be a better way of doing this these days?
>
>     The imperfections are numerous,  but only very slight, as you would
> expect after around 155K . I'm not expecting a miracle cure, but just
> looking for something that I could do maybe even each time I wash the car,
> that may gradually improve the situation.
>
> [ ... ]