Gentleman:
The simplest thing to try with in house stuff is a soft fine weave
cotton cloth and toothpaste. Use the paste to wet out the cloth,
don't add much water, if any, unless the paste dries as it does.
Many toothpastes have a very fine grit, whether is be silica base or
titanium dioxide pigment, and I use it all the time for polishing
crystals on watches (when plastic), and canopies. I also use
toothpast to remove the tarnish on silver necklaces. Just put the
closed necklace in the palm of your hand, add paste and rub.
All simple stuff learned from and old jewelr boss.
Chris
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Subject: [RCSE] Re: OT: Can anything be done with "frosted" headlight
covers?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, September 22, 2006 8:49 am
To: Soaring@airage.com
Stan,This topic came up recently on one of the car forums I frequent. One guy had success using very fine wet/dry sandpaper (used wet), the same stuff they use in auto body painting, progressively finer, and finally polishing compound. The sandpaper is available in Pep Boys and the like, and grit rating is in the thousands (don't remember the exact values). Mine are etched from our desert sun so I was going to try this soon, and I figure the worst that will happen is I screw them up and have to replace with new ones anyway! There are products available at the auto stores for polishing plastic headlight lenses, but they are not aggressive enough to get rid of the etching.Just so Gordy doesn't blast me for a non-soaring post, I suppose you can use this technique for getting rid of frosted canopies on your scale sailplanes ;-)The other StanIn a message dated 09/21/2006 4:37:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Soaring@airage.com writes:Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:18:03 -0500
From: Stan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Soaring Digest <soaring@airage.com>
Subject: OT: Can anything be done with "frosted" headlight covers?
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My headlights on 98 Audi A6 are almost completely frosted. Any help out
there?
Thanks
Stan
