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I was in the video store the other day and saw them emoving scratches from a CD. Now i know you can get scratch removal kits from electronics stores but will they work on helmet visors????? Does anyone know the process or if it is even a viable idea?
Forum whore
Cds have a polyurethane coating to protect the recorded side. You can polish this to remove scratches. It is actually safer to put them playing surface down, as if you scratch the label surface you lose the reflective coating.Originally Posted by aff-man
All you can do with your helmet is polish it up with pledge. It will get rid of fine scratches, but nothing will sort deep scores.
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Will this work on an iridum visor???
Easy Biker
Better than Pledge are some of the specialist visor polishes (I've got a can of Slipstreamer and another one I got from Motomail - can't remember the name of that) and also what is pretty good is Simoniz Liquid Diamond car polish.
If the CD polish is working on polyurethane I would have thought that would work on polycarb or lexan much as the other polishes do.
Cheers
Merv
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You have to do it evenly or you end up with visual distortion at the spot you polish - in other words you have to polish the whole visor down to the same thickness. I tried it once (with Simoniz) and the result was nausea inducing. Ended up paying for the Simoniz and a new visor.
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afaik the iridium coating is layered over the top of the tinted plastic so no, once it's chipped or scratched off yer buggered.
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Bloody bigger bikes and thier super sorsa sticky tyres that flick up stones. The problem is i can't get another one in this counrty and it would cost heaps to import
ss'duc
Should try what I did and polish it with petrol.
Hardcore Biker
Back in the 80's got hold of a tube of visor clear, great stuff polishes out the small scratches that refract light at night. Still have some left somewhere. As I don't wear my full face much the visor is not too bad on my new helmet with the new (Well new to me ) poloycarb visor. I'm not sure if you can still get hold of the stuff but there should be something like it on the market by now.
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If it is just a clear non-iridium face shield, silvo may help to take out the scratches. Warning, it will take a lot longer than 10 minutes. Worked on the blade of my '01 R6.Bloody bigger bikes and thier super sorsa sticky tyres that flick up stones. The problem is i can't get another one in this counrty and it would cost heaps to import
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Brasso will do it, a bit more abrasive than Silvo so will work quicker but the finish won't be as good
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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should only use plastic lens/visor cleaner, furniture polishes like pledge will root your visor, the chemicals can make them get very brittle, not to good when a stone or similar object impacts at speed!!!
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parting of the sensory
Up until I dropped it on the concrete last week, my 3+ year-old AGV's visor was looking pretty good, as I only ever clean it with Plexus plastic polish. It won't remove big scratches (like the ones from dropping it last week), but it gets rid of all those annoying little scratches that give you 'starring' at night.
This is the stuff that Merv got from Motomail (at least, that's where I got mine).
I'd imagine that (when I can be bothered) if I polish it with something more abrasive like Cerapol or Brasso, then follow up with Plexus, I'd be able to get rid of the nasty scratches I have now, but with all the other scratches on my once beautiful AGV, I'm tempted to just replace the whole thing. Trouble is, I'm a cheap bastid...
Crazy, too (but not as crazy as my visor currently is...)
on the up
My windscreen is very cloudy - in fact its so bad you can't actually see through it.
Given my current budget for upgrades ($0) is there any of these techniques I can use to get it see-through again?
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