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| | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Hey there Wilbur, hope your listening. I got a question for ya Bill, bout buffing out the small dust scratches that accumulate on the window glass over the years.
About a hundred years ago when I was stationed with the USAF out in Sacramento, CA. My ’60 Biscayne rear window got busted out at a hillbilly bar one Saturday night and I had a shop replace it with a used one I got out of a junkyard. I watched them do the work and after they installed it they took a buffer and polished it with what the tech said was pumice compound. Is there a compound available today retail that I could use to clean up the glass with a buffer? Mind you, I’m not looking to take out biggies, just those tiny fine scratches.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
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Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Jeweler's rouge or a very fine polishing compound like chrome polish should work.
Save a life, adopt a senior shelter pet.
The three main causes of blindness: Cataracts, Politics, Religion.
Name your dog Naked so you can walk Naked in the park.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 | eastwood sells a kit just for that purpose. Comes with a small buffing wheel and cerium oxide.
100 years ago? Yah right! | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Jeweler's rouge or a very fine polishing compound like chrome polish should work. I can tell you from experience that jewelers rouge does not work on glass. Some places are advertising systems that are supposed to work and I'd like to hear from someone who's used one of them. Here's an interesting bit of trivia... Did you know that glass is a liquid? It's true. You can hang a weighted piece of wire over the edge of glass and over time the wire will cut through the glass. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | White rouge will work for very small scratches on Laminated glass,Tempered glass is another matter altogether! If you can feel the scratch with your finger nail it'll take a fair bit of work to remove! Even if you successfully remove it you can end up with a'trough' in the glass which can cause distortion. Re; Glass is a liquid, it's a toughy to get your head round!  Some of the really old buildings in the U.K. i.e dating back to the 14th century you can actually see that the glass has sagged! The Provands Lordship in Glasgow being one example! OOPS! I should have checked first! It's ONLY 15th century!  We use a 3 part polishing system in my work, using progressively finer compounds to polish glass.Only problem is... it's messy! 
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Jeweler's rouge or a very fine polishing compound like chrome polish should work. I can tell you from experience that jewelers rouge does not work on glass. Some places are advertising systems that are supposed to work and I'd like to hear from someone who's used one of them. Here's an interesting bit of trivia... Did you know that glass is a liquid? It's true. You can hang a weighted piece of wire over the edge of glass and over time the wire will cut through the glass. Interesting. I've seen hazed glass polished using jeweler's rouge. Maybe you had deeper scratches???? 
Save a life, adopt a senior shelter pet.
The three main causes of blindness: Cataracts, Politics, Religion.
Name your dog Naked so you can walk Naked in the park.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Jeweler's rouge or a very fine polishing compound like chrome polish should work. I can tell you from experience that jewelers rouge does not work on glass. Interesting. I've seen hazed glass polished using jeweler's rouge. Maybe you had deeper scratches???? Yea, the scratch we were trying to polish out was pretty deep, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Of course that was 30 years ago  | | |
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