- Location
- Aberdeenshire
The Perspex windows on our grain carts are becoming really hard to see through due to small scratches. Can anyone recommend a product to polish them smooth? Can it be done? Cheers
Can you polish Perspex?
- Thread starter Farmer Fin
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deleted user 837354
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Whatever you do don't go cleaning them with alcohol or any kind of chemical agent, I don't know which exact plastic it is or which chemicals they can stick but I cleaned some perspex once with something and it basically 'dissolved' and misted the stuff!! If it is polycarbonate you can polish them up with the same compounds they use on car headlights, hopefully some of the other detailing saddos will know more than me can tell you which exact products to use.
- Location
- Cirencester
3m cutting compound works very well, on a mop with plenty of water to keep the cutting surface cool, if you get it hot it will knacker it. There are various grades, they use it for refinishing car paint, you use a large foam mop head, dip in water then polish. It will come up like new.
I have used it on glider canopies that have become scratched and it's sorted them out just fine. But remember, plenty of water
I have used it on glider canopies that have become scratched and it's sorted them out just fine. But remember, plenty of water
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I think it must depend on grade, in my greenhouse
i have some perspex panes, which have never been scratched , but they are completely non see through now!
i have some perspex panes, which have never been scratched , but they are completely non see through now!
8100
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- Location
- South Cheshire
Would Duraglit / Brasso work i think it has ammonia in it though ?
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Possibly easier to just buy a new bit
deleted user 837354
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I agree, bits of perspex or polycarbonate are not mental expensive.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Might be worth a try -
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- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
This is what I would use
Not bought direct from Bailey trailers
The bloke filling the trailers doesn't need perspex . wink
JD-Kid
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- Location
- Akaroa.. New Zealand
yep. forest guys said about it on windows in logging. gear. not to use alcohol or hydrocarbon glass cleaners can't recall what yer could use tho
think if too far gone. cheeper just to replace it
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Perspex will be in great demand at the moment! Anybody visited a shop recently?
Can't imagine its cheap just now.
Can't imagine its cheap just now.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I have a half sheet in the garage, if anyone wants to make me an offer. Bought in B&Q a few years ago to replace a shelf in my fridge and cut with a panel saw.
Why would you buy Perspex from a trailer manufacture? Haven’t you got a tape measure?Not bought direct from Bailey trailers
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Unfortunately the two idiots (myself and father) here do.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Brasso , just bought a bottle today to polish pickup lights and sort something else .
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