number 2 son has now managed to scratch both SWMBO and my mobile phones by rubbing them on the wood floor where grit etc has worked it's magic and scratched them.
Anyone has any experiences trying to polish such scratches out ? with what?
thanks in advance
JimK
Search for "Polywatch" - it did a great job on my badly scratched watch glass (which like most is actually plastic).
Or try toothpaste.
I was once given a free mobile phone cleaning kit (by Orange, I think) and it included suitable facia polish - which worked. Try a phone shop?
found and ordered (ebay) thanks to all
JimK
If the scratches aren't too deep you could try Brasso and then fine polish the plastic with metallic T-Cut or equivalent.
If the scratches are deeper, you may need to use the finest grade of wet & dry paper to start with then use the brasso & t-cut. I use these methods for removing scratches from DVDs.
Will these methods work for removing scratches on spectacles?
DJ
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I have never tried it on spectacles but for non-coated plastic lenses, I don't see why not. It should work for most plastics.
It will, but you will lose some optical accuracy
Micromesh abrasives. Expensive, but work very well on plastics. Easier to achieve a good result with than polishes.
For a phone though, I'd probably just use wet Wet & Dry paper. 1200 grit is common enough, you can go finer if you go to a car refinishing place. That's adequate for phone screens, if not for sunglasses.
The abrasives for military aircraft plastic windscreen sections and canopies go as fine as 5000 grit. I tried using some on a brass bar and it made it shine without any scratches.
Dave
In message , David J writes
By that, I presume you mean the lenses
You would certainly lose quality and optical performance.
Why bother when you could prolly get the lenses replaced for £30
Surely a LOT of work though
mmmm actually tried some 1000 wet and dry and it made the overall effect worse - i.e you could see less well through the "fog" of small wet and dry scratches than just the original big scratches. However a dollop of the recommneded Polywatch stuff did make the whole thing a lot clearer. When looked at obliquely you can see what a mess has been made of the facia, but to loo through it is certainly a lot lot better than it was.
Thanks to all JimK
I didn't get involved with that, but you are right, it was a lot of work and took several hours to correct the problem. At the end of the day the transperecy had to be clear and as near as possible, be optically correct.
Dave
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