Cleaning paint from eyeglasses

Aug 10, 2018 5 Replies

I wanted to remove paint from a spare set of glasses. Goo Gone did a pretty good job. It took about 3 tries with soaking time in between. The paint was the the inverted marking paint. It had been on the glasses for maybe a year. Or so.


I use denatured alcohol. It dissolves latex paint pretty quick.

So does TSP - but it etches the glass - - - - - - -

For latex, I smear the glasses with petroleum jelly. It softens the latex.

Since I wear my glasses all the time except when I'm sleeping, the paint gets cleaned off the glasses pretty quick.

Cindy Hamilton

Most solvents are not kind to plastic lenses.

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And if you have any of that antiglare coating on them, any solvent will def initely remove it.

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