Click on image for the lowdown. 
====
| | | Forums66 Topics128,132 Posts1,056,386 Members48,441 | | Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!
| | THANKS!
For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down
with Ads!  Again, thanks!
| | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | I use an old pair of eyeglasses when I work on my truck and now that I'm painting they've become pretty coated with overspray making them nearly useless. I'm happy to say that 3M RUBBING COMPOUND cleaned all the crud off without leaving any visible scratches. Keep in mind that these are my "work glasses" so proceed at your own risk if your glasses are your "good pair". | | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 85 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: May 2010 Posts: 85 | lacquer thinner or goo gone!! no i'm not kidding.
Do something! Even if it's wrong!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | That may work on glass but not acrylic lenses. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 | Does it work on the forehead and cheek overspray? lol
Dennis
-there is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer-
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 | Try rubbing alcohol. It may take a little elbow grease, but it is safe. | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 | I think you are holding the sprayer backwards !!! *G* | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | I think you are holding the sprayer backwards !!! *G* DOH!  | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | try "scratch out"...it is sold at the box stores like Walmart it werks great on plastic/acrylic of any type and is inexspensive ...my Uncle brought his H/D 03 dresser to the shop last yr. and had some sort of water/mineral stains on the clear coat of his fairing he could not get off ..after tryin lottsa high dollar products he was P.O.'D.
just for tickles i grabbed the scratch out onna the boys had bought for there snowmobile windshiled...WHALLA with a few gentle rubs all the stains were gone.
Try it... | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | Alcohol, on glass anyway. On plastic lenses, fingernail.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | Sandblasting will get the paint off. 
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 400 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 400 | Sandblasting will get the paint off. The face and cheeks too. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 | Methal Ethal Ketone on glass, Isopropal Alcohol on plastic
*UNDER CONSTRUCTION* 1953 Chevrolet 3100 1/2 ton-previously abandoned resto. My Project BoltI hate when people leave their brains at home. Seriously when did critical thinking and customer service go out the window? How about common sense and striving to go the extra mile? Idiots, surrounded by idiots it tell you.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 215 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 215 | Don't ever use alcohol to clean acrylic, you will be sorry.
It will crack and crumble before you go "What the....." | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 | If you don't have "work" glasses to use, a little trick is to tightly cover the lens with clear wrap like Saran Wrap. It does distort a little, but is passable to use in a pinch.
Drew
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 | Andy I clean plastic with alcohol daily and have never had that issue?
*UNDER CONSTRUCTION* 1953 Chevrolet 3100 1/2 ton-previously abandoned resto. My Project BoltI hate when people leave their brains at home. Seriously when did critical thinking and customer service go out the window? How about common sense and striving to go the extra mile? Idiots, surrounded by idiots it tell you.
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | The last time I had paint overspray on my glasses, plastic lenses weren't around yet. Paint thinner solved the problem. If I was still painting these days I'd most likely wear a pair of goggles to prevent getting paint on my glasses in the first place.
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: Nov 2008 Posts: 153 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 153 | I have plastic lenses, and lacquer thinner works on mine........not sying it will on yours, but........
Last edited by kerry3; 01/07/2011 11:38 PM.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 215 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 215 | Andy I clean plastic with alcohol daily and have never had that issue? Just look it up on youtube or some such thing, lots of people have found the issue and its common with ACRYLIC,if you haven't had a problem, then you aren't cleaning ACRYLIC. Did I mention, this is with ACRYLIC ? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 280 | my bad, i equated acrylic and plastic as the same....which it is not.
Last edited by Silverado_9c3; 01/08/2011 1:30 AM.
*UNDER CONSTRUCTION* 1953 Chevrolet 3100 1/2 ton-previously abandoned resto. My Project BoltI hate when people leave their brains at home. Seriously when did critical thinking and customer service go out the window? How about common sense and striving to go the extra mile? Idiots, surrounded by idiots it tell you.
| | |
|
|
