My grand parents and beyond were Brits and I really enjoy the accent...I'm a yank now...The vid was very informative and I need to do this...am in the process of restoring a 93 Honda Prelude that has tons of micro scratches from dirty windshield wipers being dragged over a dry windshield...Thanks again...
Great info Trev. A while back I was restoring an Anglia 105e and the screen was like the Bedfords, arch scrapes and micro chips all over it, after finding out they cost $450au new, I called a mobile glass polisher who done it for $100 while it was fitted to the car..
When I first tuned in, I thought " I'd only ever heard that you need something called Cerium oxide to polish glass"...and Boom!..Trev breaks out the Cerium oxide! Good vid Trev, never seen anyone attempt this on a car channel. Going back to garage now to finish welding tabs back onto stainless headlamp trim ring.
Greetings from across the pond in Australia. Another great channel on UA-cam such as yours is Sweet Project Cars. Long time car repairer in the USA who gives practical tips and tricks to the DIY'er that actually work. One of the videos is called "Remove bad scratches in glass...Forever" He uses Cutters and Hand Cleaner with Pumice. I have yet to try the method. Another video of his that I have tried is to polish faded and yellowed plastic headlight covers. Took all of 5 minutes to restore the covers to new. Lots of great videos, highly recommended.
What a great idea. My kid delayed replacing wiper blades for a few months, and it made deep gouges in the glass. Eventually he sold the car but your thought to polish would have been a better choice.
Great timing on this topic Trev, I’m rebuilding/ restoring my son’s 88 Toyota Supra and have been looking at these glass polishing kits on eBay . We have a brand new windscreen but the side windows have lots of fine scratches in them and it’s driving me nuts , so it fantastic to see the results you got although now I have slight doubt about achieving the results I am hoping for, many thanks for doing this video
Watch This Space 0101 Car Channel just take it steady if it’s laminated a lot of people saying they’re a bit more fragile. It isn’t perfect but much better than it was. Cheers Trev
I know this is an old video...but to polish out scratches in glass you can use 1 part rubbing compound, and 3 parts fast orange hand cleaner (With Pumice). Just make sure that the glass does not get too hot, keep it hydrated with some distilled water to re-activate the mixture. Then I would finish with Cerium Oxide or Glass polish. Oh yea...the Cerium Oxide mix is hella messy, it flings everywhere, they do recommend that the minimum speed is 1500 RPM I was able to get around 2000 RPM without it getting too crazy, but any higher than that, I had the place drop cloths all over the place.. They also recommend you soak your felt/rayon pad in warm water for about 1 minute before starting the polishing process.
Hi there Trev, well now, I volunteered to polish out my mother in laws neighbours scratch on her windscreen and I went to a glass supplier, and they said Jewlers rouge was the stuff, so I got my little SNAP -ON polished, my DA with 3000 grit polished out the deepest parts with the da to make it flat, and with a small felt pad on my little battery polisher hit the 3000 area with the rouge slightly mixed to a paste, flashed it with a fine water spray to keep it getting to dry, and in 15 mins the job was perfect, and I tell you, she had gone under a parking barrier and it was quite a deep scratch probably 16 thou. So try Jewellers rouge it's what the glass guys use when they scratch windows, and they polish it out by hand. ( and it's not poisonous). However it goes everywhere, so you do have to wash the car after....lol Keep up the good work.
Don't put yourself down Trev "Not Qualified" of course your qualified! you had a go at it & as always came up with the results. Absolutely love all your work Mate & I just wanted to ask about the shirt you're wearing. Do you have a volume control for it??? Ha Ha. Cheers Mate. Billy J.... upside down here in OZ.
Thanks for all the detailed info. I’ll just polish the side windows and rear glass on the 69 chevelle I’m restoring. With a new windshield only 150-200 us, I’ll probably just buy a new one if there are scratches after I clean it.
Mega thanks to the viewer who requested this and to Trev for doing it- just been pondering how to sort scratches in my bikes plexiglass screen. Windscreen for French Canadians -Pare- Brise. See the plasma was used for doing a REAL job- they would look good on my tank LOL.
The etch/mark and the mark at the rubber are calcium build up from out of the rain over time .to remove spray with acid used for shower rose cleaning like CLR CLEAR here in Aussie
Hi i'm from NASA (Wallace & Grommet inc ) We have four hundred curved mirrors that need polishing and nobody here wants to do them for our new Alien detection space craft & someone spotted you doing a great job so we need you to save our project. your faithfully Scott ( the alien ) greenman. 🛰🚀
There's a company called GlasWeld in the US. They sell a polish that seems very good. Cerium oxide is really the polish of choice for the heavy stuff. One thing I learned was that the soft pads felt type pads are not really very good. The best is smooth plastic like you would find on a grout float because it keeps the material against the glass instead of letting it migrate into the pad. A lot of polishing compound is wasted as it goes into the pad. Good video and very excellent explanations, which I appreciate.
What a great subject for a video, Trev. This is something that just about everyone with an older vehicle (regardless of whether they revel in metalwork) can sink their teeth into - especially as parts like windshields start becoming hard to find and/or expensive. Cheers, mate. :-)
Good Video. Just be careful not to generate too much heat. It can crack the glass and I have heard it can screw up the plastic lamination between the two layers of glass. Also too much polishing and it can distort your vision through the glass. Thanks, Tom
I have used toothpaste for years. It works fine and is cheap. Problem is optical quality of windscreen afterwods. So do not get focused on a small area only. It will get you through MOT.
Brilliant video and gives me so much more confidence to tackle the job. Do you think a random orbital sander would do the job or should it be a polisher/angle grinder
@@trevsblog Thanks, off to get a polisher from Toolstation tomorrow. It's a whole new world but then I haven't had the time to enjoy life and restore my car to a more enjoyable state (Being retired is so much fun)
What would be amazing Trev is if you could polish glasses. The amount of money People spend after getting a tiny scratch in the lenses is ridiculous. Opticians say no to polishing because they get £90 pounds for lense replacement. I think they use polishers when they make the lenses. Let me know what you think maybe you could test this theory. Great vid mate
I was asking our local windscreen guy about this the other week, and he reckons that with the windscreen being curved (or in most cases convex i guess ), and with sanding and polishing making the scratched area flat, that it makes it funny to look through afterwards. Then again, he sells windscreens... Anyway, as usual, good video. Cheers..
0:59 - LOL! My high-school Spanish teacher used to joke about our two countries being separated by a single language. He'd tell us how in the US you take off your bonnet & look under the hood & in the UK you do just the opposite. Still trying to this day to picture "hood" being a direct synonym for "bonnet"... XD
Good tips Trev. Maybe you need to mention you're working on toughened glass. If you polish a laminated screen, be very careful of the pressure you exert. They crack easily due to the thin layers in a sandwich they're made of. Cheers !
Since the guys over at Bad Obsession Motorsports were saying about them not having a plasma CNC, I dropped your name. Might get you a few thou’ subscribers? Ha ha
good info Trev , love ya work mate, with that haircut you need some Rockabilly banging lol. had a bedford in the late 80's with a 400ci chev damn I miss it stupid me and yep another aussie sending ya Cheers!
Great test thank You for sharing👍 my bag of cerium oxide is still waiting for some more free time. Can You notice any lens effect in places where You spot polished scratches ?
That etch/smear thing I have across the entirety of my '56 truck's windshield, but mine is a lot cloudier. I talked to a glass shop and they had no idea what it was or how to remove it.
@@1967250s if it were bird poop, those birds did a pretty thorough job of covering the whole window. I thought it might be moisture inbetween the laminated inner and outer sheets or maybe there was a coating over it that broke down over time. I'm going to try trev's polishing tips in a week or 2 when supplies arrive
I wonder if before the polishing if maybe filling the area with the stuff they use to repair cracks or dings in screens then do the polishing after, good adhesion would be the problem, I also have heard that Brasso is quite good (a bit like the Jewelers ruge mentioned below).
Anonymous98 that is an extremely deep and far reaching question to ask. The second windscreen I bought to replace the original was more damaged than the original, which was the one I polished in the video. The vehicle has been out of manufacture for over 50 years so no new windscreens available from anywhere. Second hand parts sell for any price, there is absolutely no standard to value. Parts sell for what people are prepared to pay and many of the parts are already in scrap condition. If you took your time/material expense into account when restoring anything then you would come to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth the effort. This is why the restoration trade is a shrinking business, as a customer wanting value for money will never achieve that goal. I personally would never consider setting up a business repairing cars. As I keep saying to frustrated business owners and potential customers alike, it’s a great hobby and that’s where I intend to leave it. Cheers Trev 👍
Trev's Blog Great answer. With the internet, it would seem that someone, somewhere would have a spare windscreen stashed away, waiting for you to find it and buy it, but no such luck. I would suggest spaying soapy water on the windscreen as the lubricant when wet polishing it. The soap causes the water to carry away the bits of glass, etc., and should give you a better result. All it takes is 3 or 4 drops of dish washing detergent to one spray bottle of clean water. Thanks for this video - I have a windshield with wiper marks that need polishing out, and I need practical tips like yours.
Almost the whole video, the camera was focusing either on the floor or on the lamp reflection. But not the scratches. It's a common problem with autofocus and glass.
Hi Trevor, I have used Beryllium Oxide in the past, I suspect this may be what others below are referring to as Jewelers Rouge. I was surprised how well this worked on an old Mini windscreen. This was bought of Ebay as well.
Grammy P. Too funny man...beryllium oxide is white, jewelers rouge is red/brown . Beryllium oxide is highly toxic and a carcinogen , if you have used it in the past you are a dead man walking.
Gavin Almeida a good idea but I’m not sure it would work. If there’s a product out there that could do this I’m certainly not aware of it. I’ve used the chip repair resin and had good results but under close observation you can always still see where the chip was. Cheers Trev 👍
Trev ,Great and appreciated as always. 2 quick questions sir- 1) what grit oxide did you use? I only know of 2-I have a bag of the orange and I think its a bit more course than the white 2) I'm pretty sure the Bedford in not on the road yet--did sanding leave with any waviness? I have a windshield for a 1961 Alfa on the dining room table waiting for me to get off my butt.
Burntorangeak that is odd. Goes against the laws of physics. On the Mohrs hardness scale glass is 5.5 and garnet is 6.5-7.5 so garnet is harder than window glass and will work, but aluminum oxide is 9.0, much harder than garnet and only softer than diamond.
I couldn't find a 6" hard felt hook and loop pad on the internet. Do you call it a "cutting" pad or a "polishing" pad? The only one I found was from a major brand - that they've discontinued. Any suggestions? Alternatives? I did find a 4" pad....
@@trevsblog I'm sorry for being a bother - thanks for your answer! But I found the entries you suggested. Here's one: Car 150mm 6" White Polishing Buffing Wheel Wool Felt Polisher Disc Round Pad. Do I assume it has a hook-and-eye backing even though the ad says that nowhere explicitly?
@@bjvoorhies I haven’t seen the add you’re looking at so I have no idea. Try asking the seller? sometimes they reply fairly promptly. You might have to take a chance. If it isn’t you could always glue the pad on with contact adhesive. 👍
Clay barring will help before polishing it.. I tried it on my windshield to remove road grime and other impurities. I seen a big difference compare to just glass cleaner and normal cleaning
I have scratched drop glass in my mk1 escort… I’ve got all the air tools one could ask for. Solely because I’ve been polishing cast aluminium.😂🥲🥲🥲😂 I have a couple little 3 inch random orbital sanders. Plus boxes of all the grits from 80 right out 3000 grit and everything in between. My only fear is the dust. ☹️
Actually Sonax has a glass polish and with a certain pad they supply i got rid of almost all scratches on my old 74 Celica windscreen. Also its not harmfull
I'm sure it would be the same as polishing rocks, the steps would be starting with a course grit 40 or 50 grit (not recommended for glass) and slowly moving up to a very fine grit (3000 - 6000) then the last stem would be a polish. Too time consuming.
I've been faffing about with old cars for a very long time, yet you're still adding to my knowledge. Love this stuff many many thanks
You've done a great service to windscreens around the world!
WHAT A JOY------proper old fashioned tradesman. No nonsense No bullshit Just proper and applied skill. Well done boy.
My grand parents and beyond were Brits and I really enjoy the accent...I'm a yank now...The vid was very informative and I need to do this...am in the process of restoring a 93 Honda Prelude that has tons of micro scratches from dirty windshield wipers being dragged over a dry windshield...Thanks again...
Great info Trev. A while back I was restoring an Anglia 105e and the screen was like the Bedfords, arch scrapes and micro chips all over it, after finding out they cost $450au new, I called a mobile glass polisher who done it for $100 while it was fitted to the car..
When I first tuned in, I thought " I'd only ever heard that you need something called Cerium oxide to polish glass"...and Boom!..Trev breaks out the Cerium oxide!
Good vid Trev, never seen anyone attempt this on a car channel.
Going back to garage now to finish welding tabs back onto stainless headlamp trim ring.
Greetings from across the pond in Australia. Another great channel on UA-cam such as yours is Sweet Project Cars. Long time car repairer in the USA who gives practical tips and tricks to the DIY'er that actually work. One of the videos is called "Remove bad scratches in glass...Forever" He uses Cutters and Hand Cleaner with Pumice. I have yet to try the method. Another video of his that I have tried is to polish faded and yellowed plastic headlight covers. Took all of 5 minutes to restore the covers to new. Lots of great videos, highly recommended.
What a great idea. My kid delayed replacing wiper blades for a few months, and it made deep gouges in the glass. Eventually he sold the car but your thought to polish would have been a better choice.
Great timing on this topic Trev, I’m rebuilding/ restoring my son’s 88 Toyota Supra and have been looking at these glass polishing kits on eBay . We have a brand new windscreen but the side windows have lots of fine scratches in them and it’s driving me nuts , so it fantastic to see the results you got although now I have slight doubt about achieving the results I am hoping for, many thanks for doing this video
Watch This Space 0101 Car Channel just take it steady if it’s laminated a lot of people saying they’re a bit more fragile. It isn’t perfect but much better than it was. Cheers Trev
Trev's Blog yeah I remember you saying it wasn’t perfect so I’m researching further into glass polishing before I buy that kit off eBay
I know this is an old video...but to polish out scratches in glass you can use 1 part rubbing compound, and 3 parts fast orange hand cleaner (With Pumice). Just make sure that the glass does not get too hot, keep it hydrated with some distilled water to re-activate the mixture. Then I would finish with Cerium Oxide or Glass polish. Oh yea...the Cerium Oxide mix is hella messy, it flings everywhere, they do recommend that the minimum speed is 1500 RPM I was able to get around 2000 RPM without it getting too crazy, but any higher than that, I had the place drop cloths all over the place.. They also recommend you soak your felt/rayon pad in warm water for about 1 minute before starting the polishing process.
Hi there Trev, well now, I volunteered to polish out my mother in laws neighbours scratch on her windscreen and I went to a glass supplier, and they said Jewlers rouge was the stuff, so I got my little SNAP -ON polished, my DA with 3000 grit polished out the deepest parts with the da to make it flat, and with a small felt pad on my little battery polisher hit the 3000 area with the rouge slightly mixed to a paste, flashed it with a fine water spray to keep it getting to dry, and in 15 mins the job was perfect, and I tell you, she had gone under a parking barrier and it was quite a deep scratch probably 16 thou. So try Jewellers rouge it's what the glass guys use when they scratch windows, and they polish it out by hand. ( and it's not poisonous). However it goes everywhere, so you do have to wash the car after....lol
Keep up the good work.
Don't put yourself down Trev "Not Qualified" of course your qualified! you had a go at it & as always came up with the results. Absolutely love all your work Mate & I just wanted to ask about the shirt you're wearing. Do you have a volume control for it??? Ha Ha. Cheers Mate. Billy J.... upside down here in OZ.
Sanding glass...who knew you could do that?
Also looks like I'm not the only one digging this outro music...awesome that it's a free download!
Thanks for all the detailed info. I’ll just polish the side windows and rear glass on the 69 chevelle I’m restoring. With a new windshield only 150-200 us, I’ll probably just buy a new one if there are scratches after I clean it.
Mega thanks to the viewer who requested this and to Trev for doing it- just been pondering how to sort scratches in my bikes plexiglass screen. Windscreen for French Canadians -Pare- Brise. See the plasma was used for doing a REAL job- they would look good on my tank LOL.
Thanks Trev, very informative, I may have a go at my drivers door glass now.
Great video trev.
When I was very young my first van was the Bedford van. I had a real pleasure when I saw the screen and that fantastic front grill.
Thank you
Trev
On holiday in Frome, Somerset and the best bit is I've got fast WiFi so I can watch Trev's great videos.
The etch/mark and the mark at the rubber are calcium build up from out of the rain over time .to remove spray with acid used for shower rose cleaning like CLR CLEAR here in Aussie
Thanks a million for this one Trev. I was wondering what the hell to do with the scratches on my side window
Hi i'm from NASA (Wallace & Grommet inc ) We have four hundred curved mirrors that need polishing and nobody here wants to do them for our new Alien detection space craft & someone spotted you doing a great job so we need you to save our project. your faithfully Scott ( the alien ) greenman. 🛰🚀
Ooooh the CNC machine at the end! Great vid Trev, I'll do the same on my Suzuki mighty boy glass.
Great video Trev. Its time to get polishing the car windows ! wow that sneak peek at the van was stunning !
Cheers, Jeff.
cabdriveruk 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Glad to see this. I have a rear window that has to be lowered every time you want to open the tailgate with some deep scratches.
There's a company called GlasWeld in the US. They sell a polish that seems very good. Cerium oxide is really the polish of choice for the heavy stuff. One thing I learned was that the soft pads felt type pads are not really very good. The best is smooth plastic like you would find on a grout float because it keeps the material against the glass instead of letting it migrate into the pad. A lot of polishing compound is wasted as it goes into the pad.
Good video and very excellent explanations, which I appreciate.
The outro music sounds like something the Shadows would have put out...
Interesting video, as are the rest of yours as well. Thanks!
well done , lots of patience needed for glass polishing
What a great subject for a video, Trev. This is something that just about everyone with an older vehicle (regardless of whether they revel in metalwork) can sink their teeth into - especially as parts like windshields start becoming hard to find and/or expensive. Cheers, mate. :-)
Good Video. Just be careful not to generate too much heat. It can crack the glass and I have heard it can screw up the plastic lamination between the two layers of glass. Also too much polishing and it can distort your vision through the glass. Thanks, Tom
Your metal working skills are amazing
Wow, what an excellent job as usual. Particularly as a first timer.
I have used toothpaste for years. It works fine and is cheap. Problem is optical quality of windscreen afterwods. So do not get focused on a small area only. It will get you through MOT.
Brilliant video and gives me so much more confidence to tackle the job.
Do you think a random orbital sander would do the job or should it be a polisher/angle grinder
RobertZone I’d use a random orbital for the sanding but definitely a rotary polisher for the polishing stage. Cheers Trev 👍
@@trevsblog Thanks, off to get a polisher from Toolstation tomorrow. It's a whole new world but then I haven't had the time to enjoy life and restore my car to a more enjoyable state (Being retired is so much fun)
What would be amazing Trev is if you could polish glasses. The amount of money People spend after getting a tiny scratch in the lenses is ridiculous. Opticians say no to polishing because they get £90 pounds for lense replacement. I think they use polishers when they make the lenses. Let me know what you think maybe you could test this theory. Great vid mate
I was asking our local windscreen guy about this the other week, and he reckons that with the windscreen being curved (or in most cases convex i guess ), and with sanding and polishing making the scratched area flat, that it makes it funny to look through afterwards. Then again, he sells windscreens... Anyway, as usual, good video. Cheers..
great content in between a cool intro an an even cooler outro! Cool Blog Trev's.
Great videos! amazing finish! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks 🙏🏼
Great tips mate. And great music as usual
Thanks for the tutorial and demonstration.
Excellent! Great guide i need to repair damage on mine! 👌
Hi Trev, that's amazing! thanks for another great episode.
you are my star :)
Another Classic Trev video! Very useful content in a sea of chocolate teapots!
0:59 - LOL! My high-school Spanish teacher used to joke about our two countries being separated by a single language. He'd tell us how in the US you take off your bonnet & look under the hood & in the UK you do just the opposite. Still trying to this day to picture "hood" being a direct synonym for "bonnet"... XD
Very good , cheers from Tassie.
Good tips Trev. Maybe you need to mention you're working on toughened glass. If you polish a laminated screen, be very careful of the pressure you exert. They crack easily due to the thin layers in a sandwich they're made of. Cheers !
Mudgrove thanks good tip also, I’ve got a tinted screen from 75 which is period correct, never thought to polish it, I’ll go easy
Handy to know, i have a wiper mark on the mini which i decided to accept as 'patina'. Think i'll have a go, Ta Trev
Mini Man Shed cheers Martin 👍
Great stuff, as always! Thanks Trev!
Great video as always Trev! an area ive never dabbled in as of yet, thanks for the insight and shared experience. keep at it my brother :)
Thems look like Duffle coat scuffs from some heavy necking in the 60s on Aston common Trev ! :)
Great video!! My van needs some work on the windscreen
Excellent, feel the need to go polish glass now👍
Since the guys over at Bad Obsession Motorsports were saying about them not having a plasma CNC, I dropped your name. Might get you a few thou’ subscribers? Ha ha
That will be very helpful. Thank you.
your a legend Trev
Thanks for the tip Trev.
Another good video - like the shirt👍
good info Trev , love ya work mate, with that haircut you need some Rockabilly banging lol. had a bedford in the late 80's with a 400ci chev damn I miss it stupid me and yep another aussie sending ya Cheers!
Once again a compelling watch. Thank you . Van is looking brilliant . What colour is it ? Keep the videos comming if you have time .
Peter Warren powder blue 🤩
Amazing results. Thanks for the tips.
We did the same thing on our 1986 560 SL using cerium oxide. works well
nice work- nice haircut!
Great tip Trev, thanks! Love that closing music, is that Dick Dale?
kisoia it’s Norma Rockwell 👍
@@trevsblog Thanks
Very cool! Very helpful!
Great test thank You for sharing👍 my bag of cerium oxide is still waiting for some more free time. Can You notice any lens effect in places where You spot polished scratches ?
Maciek M no haziness but it isn’t perfect but so much better than it was . Cheers Trev 👍
Great vid brilliant music.
That etch/smear thing I have across the entirety of my '56 truck's windshield, but mine is a lot cloudier. I talked to a glass shop and they had no idea what it was or how to remove it.
it may be glass corrosion like you get in a dishwasher
Could be some bird poop, maybe some liquid from the road with acid, eats into the glass.
@@1967250s if it were bird poop, those birds did a pretty thorough job of covering the whole window. I thought it might be moisture inbetween the laminated inner and outer sheets or maybe there was a coating over it that broke down over time. I'm going to try trev's polishing tips in a week or 2 when supplies arrive
Dr. Rhomboid Goatcabin if it is between you will unfortunately have no chance of saving it. Cheers Trev
I wonder if before the polishing if maybe filling the area with the stuff they use to repair cracks or dings in screens then do the polishing after, good adhesion would be the problem, I also have heard that Brasso is quite good (a bit like the Jewelers ruge mentioned below).
I took out a huge gouge out of a 928 rear quarter glass, it took hours.
Good job, Trev.
How much would have a new windscreen cost versus the value of the time you spent and the cost of the products you used?
Anonymous98 that is an extremely deep and far reaching question to ask. The second windscreen I bought to replace the original was more damaged than the original, which was the one I polished in the video. The vehicle has been out of manufacture for over 50 years so no new windscreens available from anywhere. Second hand parts sell for any price, there is absolutely no standard to value. Parts sell for what people are prepared to pay and many of the parts are already in scrap condition. If you took your time/material expense into account when restoring anything then you would come to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth the effort. This is why the restoration trade is a shrinking business, as a customer wanting value for money will never achieve that goal. I personally would never consider setting up a business repairing cars. As I keep saying to frustrated business owners and potential customers alike, it’s a great hobby and that’s where I intend to leave it. Cheers Trev 👍
Trev's Blog Great answer. With the internet, it would seem that someone, somewhere would have a spare windscreen stashed away, waiting for you to find it and buy it, but no such luck. I would suggest spaying soapy water on the windscreen as the lubricant when wet polishing it. The soap causes the water to carry away the bits of glass, etc., and should give you a better result. All it takes is 3 or 4 drops of dish washing detergent to one spray bottle of clean water. Thanks for this video - I have a windshield with wiper marks that need polishing out, and I need practical tips like yours.
Almost the whole video, the camera was focusing either on the floor or on the lamp reflection. But not the scratches.
It's a common problem with autofocus and glass.
be interesting to see how your wiper blades wear to the glass?
Interesting stuff young man.
when you taking orders for cnc laser/plasma metal :)
another great vid mate!!
I've used cerium oxide worked good. Cheers.
Hi Trevor, I have used Beryllium Oxide in the past, I suspect this may be what others below are referring to as Jewelers Rouge. I was surprised how well this worked on an old Mini windscreen. This was bought of Ebay as well.
Grammy P. Too funny man...beryllium oxide is white, jewelers rouge is red/brown . Beryllium oxide is highly toxic and a carcinogen , if you have used it in the past you are a dead man walking.
@@Dixler683 must have been jewellers rouge, as it was a pink powder and I am still here to reply as it was before 2006 or 14 years ago I used it...😀
Would some sort of Epoxy not work to fill the scratch and then flat with paper?
Gavin Almeida a good idea but I’m not sure it would work. If there’s a product out there that could do this I’m certainly not aware of it. I’ve used the chip repair resin and had good results but under close observation you can always still see where the chip was. Cheers Trev 👍
Great video. Thanks for sharing something new. Aloha! : )
Trev ,Great and appreciated as always. 2 quick questions sir- 1) what grit oxide did you use? I only know of 2-I have a bag of the orange and I think its a bit more course than the white 2) I'm pretty sure the Bedford in not on the road yet--did sanding leave with any waviness?
I have a windshield for a 1961 Alfa on the dining room table waiting for me to get off my butt.
Steve Wuertz no idea what grit, it was pale. Yes sanding distorted the surface very slightly, I wouldn’t bother sanding again. Cheers Trev 👍
@@trevsblog Thanks Senor
Does this method work on sand damaged widescreen? I drove my car through a heavy sand storm that left pitting in the windscreen?
Juday Hajri I have no idea although it certainly should make an improvement. Cheers Trev 👍
Thanks Trev.
Note: Red Garnet based sand paper works much better, and lasts longer than basic aluminum oxide paper when used on glass.
Burntorangeak that is odd. Goes against the laws of physics. On the Mohrs hardness scale glass is 5.5 and garnet is 6.5-7.5 so garnet is harder than window glass and will work, but aluminum oxide is 9.0, much harder than garnet and only softer than diamond.
good (great?)vid as always.
Trev,is your paint polish the same as Tcut or harsher?
cheers.
mikego the Polish is formulated for 2k products, I’m not sure how aggressive it is. Cheers Trev 👍
Good info
Damn I could've saved me 300 buckaroo's and mine weren't deep at all.. thanks for the tip...
I couldn't find a 6" hard felt hook and loop pad on the internet. Do you call it a "cutting" pad or a "polishing" pad? The only one I found was from a major brand - that they've discontinued. Any suggestions? Alternatives? I did find a 4" pad....
Search for 6” polishing backing on eBay 👍
@@trevsblog I'm sorry for being a bother - thanks for your answer! But I found the entries you suggested. Here's one: Car 150mm 6" White Polishing Buffing Wheel Wool Felt Polisher Disc Round Pad. Do I assume it has a hook-and-eye backing even though the ad says that nowhere explicitly?
@@bjvoorhies I haven’t seen the add you’re looking at so I have no idea. Try asking the seller? sometimes they reply fairly promptly. You might have to take a chance. If it isn’t you could always glue the pad on with contact adhesive. 👍
Think this would work to remove a bunch of little burn marks in glass that some dummy (me) put in my glass from angle grinder sparks?
Very tricky if you can see any black specks in the burns as thats probably metal which has welded into the glass and will turn orange when they rust.
Ryan Cummins I wonder if you could use a tiny stone Dremel possibly then use a chip repair kit with the resin? Cheers Trev 👍
Hi Trev u look like george lincoln rockwell, very much like him
Ivan K I have no idea who hers, but I’ll take your word for it. Cheers Trev 👍
as ever great video !!!@
hi come up looking very good .
I also got tons of marks on mine
Just use cerium oxide, it is what is used for polishing lenses and we used to use it for polishing glass before etching to make mirrored signs.
Has anyone tried clay barring their windsheild then polishing? I'd lke to see someone's insight as to whethere this worked or not.
I don’t know but some people use toothpaste! Cheers Trev 👍
Clay barring will help before polishing it.. I tried it on my windshield to remove road grime and other impurities. I seen a big difference compare to just glass cleaner and normal cleaning
I have scratched drop glass in my mk1 escort…
I’ve got all the air tools one could ask for.
Solely because I’ve been polishing cast aluminium.😂🥲🥲🥲😂
I have a couple little 3 inch random orbital sanders. Plus boxes of all the grits from 80 right out 3000 grit and everything in between.
My only fear is the dust.
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I always wanted to see of this would work thanks for being the ginue pig for me 😂
Will this work on modern windows/safety glass?
Yes!
Ricardo Benin just take it steady on laminated glass as it’s a bit more fragile but should be fine. Cheers Trev
Actually Sonax has a glass polish and with a certain pad they supply i got rid of almost all scratches on my old 74 Celica windscreen. Also its not harmfull
Ha haaa, right up my alley, my chevelle could use this
I'm sure it would be the same as polishing rocks, the steps would be starting with a course grit 40 or 50 grit (not recommended for glass) and slowly moving up to a very fine grit (3000 - 6000) then the last stem would be a polish. Too time consuming.
Try using fluoride toothpastee for polishing
Could you not fill scratches with something transparent first? Epoxy resin perhaps ?
Dan E Garner I’m really not sure but great thinking. Cheers Trev 👍