safety glasses tip

[Bill*]

I expect quite a few of us have a few pair of polycarbonate (plastic) safety glasses lying around that we dont use anymore because they are blurry with shallow scratches. Try this: spray a corner of a paper towel with lemon Pledge, Behold, or other lemon furniture polish. Polish for a few seconds and wipe off/buff with face or toilet tissue. Mine went from almost unusable to near new in less than 30 seconds. Hard to believe but TRY IT!!! I learned this from a guy who used to polish the soft plastic "roll-up" windows on his boat. Enjoy.....Bill
PS...Please post your results, I'm curious if it works as well for everyone

[yondering]

I'll have to try that. I have a bunch of safety glasses at home that are all scratched. Thanks for the tip.

[briang]

Don't use any kind of paper product to clean/polish plastic, that's probably where you got the scratches in the first place.

[Bill*]

actually, the scratches came from ocasionally ending up on the lenses while floating around on the casting bench. I never cleaned them before at all. Anyway, they're much better now.

[725]

I'll have to try that one. I must have a box full of marginal safety glasses.

[mooman76]

I have used car wax and it helps too. It cleans and fills in some of the finer scratches.

[shotman]

Get one of the wool mitts that you wash a car with. and keep it for only that. We use them on a bike windsheild. The furnature stuff works so does rainx. You can get 95% out by just rubbing on the wool mitt

[bigboredad]

It's amazing the simple stuff on here you can learn and save you so much money thanks great idea

[Russel Nash]

On real glass, eye glasses, I have used semi-chrome metal polish before to take out a lot of the scratches.