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Sat 7 Jan 2006 16:49
Superficial windscreen damage - barchettaman
A small question to put to the combined Supercomputer-esque might of the Backroom.

A wiper blade on the Barchie has, unbeknownst to me, come adrift from its metal frame. Whilst in use the frame has been in contact with the windscreen at the top of its ´sweep´, rather than just the rubber blade. This has resulted in a nasty scuff on the windscreen - annoyingly in the driver´s line of vision. It looks a bit like a mucky smear but is in fact a surface scuff on the glass. It´s about 2" by 2" so enough to annoy.

Following me?

So the question is - what can I use to remove aforementioned scuff? If it were a paintwork blemish I´d get the T-Cut out, obviously, but I doubt this´d work on the glass. What stuff should I use to ´polish out´ this kind of superficial glass blemish?

Cheers in advance.
Barchettaman
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 17:04
Superficial windscreen damage - Fullchat
Jewellers rouge


Fullchat
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 17:13
Superficial windscreen damage - barchettaman
Blimey. What´s that?
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 17:49
Superficial windscreen damage - Hamsafar
Halfords Intensive Glass Cutter? I used thos ones with a buffer, after accidently scraping the windscreen with a scraper that had a metal rivet on it.
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 21:40
Superficial windscreen damage - martint123
Blimey. What´s that?


Cerium oxide

Google for jewelers rouge - yo can get it all over the place. Used for polishing gemstones and the like.
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 21:46
Superficial windscreen damage - Xileno {P}
One of those mobile windscreen repairers will be able to polish it out for you.
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Sat 7 Jan 2006 22:09
Superficial windscreen damage - bell boy
possibly it depends how deep it goes.
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 08:55
Superficial windscreen damage - SlidingPillar
As already said, Jeweler Rouge is the stuff. Something from a motor accessory shop may contain it, but will cost more. The real thing cannot be expensive, Autoglass gave me some!

Use a Dremel or other minigrinder as doing it by hand is very laborious. (Felt or cloth mop, make a past of the rouge, and clean up carefully - it is after all, an abrasive compound).

Provided the structural integrety of the glass is not compromised and you don't make that much of a lens doing it, you can get most blemishes out this way. I've recoverd a few over years and so has my next door neightbour.
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 09:30
Superficial windscreen damage - Galaxy
Frosts do a windscreen polishing kit. Can be found at:

www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8109

Never used one but I think it will probably end up matting the screen if used with any pressure. Might be worth a try though.
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 14:00
Superficial windscreen damage - barchettaman
Many thanks for all your advice guys. I´ll have a crack at it this week hopefully & report back when it´s done.
Cheers,
Barchettaman
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 14:25
Superficial windscreen damage - oldgit
>> Blimey. What´s that?
>>
Cerium oxide
Google for jewelers rouge - yo can get it all over
the place. Used for polishing gemstones and the like.


Cerium Oxide! Since when?

It is your Chemist speaking!! In my day, it was always Ferric Oxide or Fe2O3 (Ground Haematite).
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Sun 15 Jan 2006 18:21
Superficial windscreen damage - barchettaman
Right, well, the jeweller´s rouge worked beautifully. I bought a sachet of a guy on eBay which came with a drill mountable felt pad - once I got the hang of it (you need to ´tilt´the drill slightly to get the edge of the pad working on the scuff) it came up in little time.
Just a wee bit of finishing work still (cordless battery ran out...) and it´ll be good as new.
Thanks for putting me onto the stuff - I honestly didn´t have a clue....Backroom scores again!
Regards,
Barchettaman
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Sun 15 Jan 2006 20:23
Superficial windscreen damage - Civic8
I would be interested to hear if it does not give a magnifying effect on applied section of screen?
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Steve
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Sun 15 Jan 2006 21:26
Superficial windscreen damage - David Horn
Provided there's no curve it shouldn't make a difference.
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Sun 15 Jan 2006 22:23
Superficial windscreen damage - barchettaman
I´ll check tomorrow in daylight! But don´t see how there could be - it was a pretty small area anyway.
Now, if only jeweller´s rouge worked on the crack in the front bumper....
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Sun 15 Jan 2006 22:28
Superficial windscreen damage - AR-CoolC
Even if it has, I doubt you'll ever look through that part of the screen if it's at the very end of the wiper sweep.
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