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Door glass fix
Does anyone know if it is possible to buff out scratches in window glass? With what media/polish?
I had a dent/ding guy work on getting out a ding in my passenger door and in doing so unfortunately he scratched quite much the outside surface of the passenger door glass. Ugh. I'm in the USA, and I'm wondering if it's not possible to buff out, where is the best source (hopefully least expensive as well) for obtaining factory window glass? Thanks! |
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07-28-2003, 08:03 PM
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The problem with polishing out glass is one, it it pretty hard material and two, it is easy to change the optical properties of the glass due to the removal of material or blending from the polished depth to the original level.
There are kits available for polishing glass windshields on the market, and they require you to use a drill motor and a little elbow grease. Give one of these a try before you replace the window. Keith
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I just happen to work in the Ford Glass Plant here in Nashville. We buff out scratches here. It really depends on how deep the scratch, and where it is located. We make most of the windshields and some of the body glass for the trucks mostly and some of the cars. I use to work in the quality dept, where we repaired some scratrches when we vistied the assembly plants. I will find out what compound we used and will post it back here. We used a dewalt cordless drill with a cotton buffing wheel to buff them out. It can be done, but like I said , only on light scratches not heavy ones. If it is too deep I have two sets of side glass I need to get rid of that I will sell cheap just to get it out of the way
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Todd,
Thanks for the info. That was very interesting. Yes, I'll look forward to seeing your next post with the info on the solution used. Thanks. |
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Todd, after the repair do you inspect the glass and look for distortion? When I was in the Aircraft Mfg. Business, we used an optical grid to judge the distortion before the final acceptance of a repair to a plastic windscreen or window.
Keith
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