Acrylic Plastic Windows - Grazing/Polished/Buffed Clear.

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Hi Guys

Can the Acrylic Plastic windows that suffer from Grazing be Polished/Buffed back to looking clear again and if so best method please.

Thanks

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JTQ

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Yes, if I correctly understand what you mean by "grazing" as surface scratching.
But you have to be very careful in doing so, the two big issues are chemical attack from the polish causing later life micro crazing within the stressed parts of the window [ that being like where it is moulded into shape], and secondly from overheating issues if you use a powered buffer too aggressively.

Whilst some metal and domestic polishes can be safely used, chemically, some can't and you are well advised to only use polishes very specifically blended for use on "Acrylic" .
The issue with others does not usually appear in the short term but sometime later, even several months when an effect their chemicals have on the structure of the plastic becomes evident, and is irreversible. In the areas where the plastic has inbuilt stressing, like where shaped into bends, these stresses are relieved by the plastic cracking on a micro scale leading to a rash of "silvery" minute flecks. The plastic fracturing where hitherto it was simply stressed.

There are several online clips dealing with how to do this polishing, best seek out and watch a few, one of the better was by the late John Wickersham.

Basically, it is using the right stuff, be gentle, slow so the plastic can't get hot and using progressively finer grade abrasives if dealing with deeper scratching is involved.
 
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Dometic do a specific product for polishing out scratches in windows. If they have crazing then I dont think there is any means of removing that as its within, rather than on the surface, of the window.
 
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Dometic do a specific product for polishing out scratches in windows. If they have crazing then I dont think there is any means of removing that as its within, rather than on the surface, of the window.
Brasso pads will remove a deep scratch.
 
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I use Fenwicks windowize apply a little bit to a soft cloth onto the light scratches on our last caravan after a little elbow grease the scratches have disappeared very happy with the result
 
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I have found a product called farecla may be of use..it is used in the vehicle refinishing trade..there are different grades available I have used it on mine although I started off 2000 grade wet and dry and got to 8000 wet and dry paper then the farecla...As stated above "crazing" is a different problem
I personally would not use s petroleum based product..Farecla,s web site contain downloads relative to thier products and data sheets
 
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