anyone ever polish out old plexiglass or lexan? we have a old 55 chevy racecar from back in the day 60's. both sides of the car have old plexiglass or lexan. it's so scratched or faded that you can't see out of them. i want to put the car on the street using the original windows because they have some old stickers on them. hoping i can polish or something around the stickers so i can leave them in the car. any suggestions? thanks, Rob
Polishing anything, Plexi, metal, stone, is always a matter of making the scratches smaller!! if you start with grit ( sand paper, compound) of a certain grit, and then use progessively finer grits, until you actually polish whatever you are working on, you will end up with what you desire.... When you sand with say 400 grit paper, and then go to 600, and then 800, and then 1,000, and the 1200, and then buffing compound, and then polishing compound. You get the picture..
Novus (the glass people) sell plexiglass polish that works really well. I love the stuff. I fact I just reached over and there's the bottle I keep around the house. Let's see... www.novuspolish.com #2 Fine scratch remover is the stuff. Tape off the stickers and have at it.
Micromesch http://www.sisweb.com/micromesh/aircraft_kits.htm use it wet it work 10x better then any paper and out last it 10x too.
I would take one of the windows to a good vinyl sign maker, so that they can re-create, or save pictures of the decals in a file just in case.
did a vette window one time its a pain in the ass only sand out one side at a time i used 2000 grit ..if you sand out both sides when you buff on it its hard to tell what your doing..
My mother had a 63 Austin Healy Sprite. It had plexiglass side windows. She was told to use something called "Glass Wax" on them. She did and it did help them a lot.
Ever notice that the Novus stuff smells just like Pledge???? Or that its got a waxy residue that has to be rubbed off like uhhh, well, furniture polish???
Like Pledge? Very interesting. I don't find that at all. But it could be my nose or maybe the product has changed. That would mean you could wash off the effect of the stuff? The # 2 and 3 have a grit in them. The #3 is for deep scratches and #2 is for fine. #1 is a cleaner that is also supposedly an anti-static coating. You use that if there is a film you want to wash off.. but I don't bother. I just use soap and water and never have the effect wash off like a wax would. I have used it for years and love it. And no, I DON'T sell it. I've done boat windshields, plastic consoles, speedometer lenses, head and tail light lenses, cell phone cases, guitars, LOTS of scratched CDs and DVDs, heck... even done eye glasses in an emergency (but wouldn't recommend that). I'm sure there are many other things that work... but it's cheap (10 bucks Canadian for a container that lasts a long time) and it's sold just for that purpose. The last thing I want to do is experiment with a customers scratched item. I've watched while a guy washed his plexi with his "special" cleaner and wiped a swath of permanent dull across it. Not all plexi is created equal. You should ALWAYS test ANY cleaner on a test piece or in as hidden an area as possible.
Its the #1, no grit, other than that, and smell I guess. Plexus one similar as well. Pledge is cheaper and does Exactly the same thing.
Am I the only one who thought: "do they make Plexiglass in Poland?" I mean, it was a very fleeting thought, but it still ran through my mind...
I apoligize ahead of time to our Polish brethren,,, you know why Polish and polish are spelled the same,, Webster didn't know shit from shinola.
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