How do you clear scratches from your visor

[Guest]

This is how I do mine

 

1/With sponge in the drill and soppy water clean off any grit and grim and the dead bugs.

 

2/Put a tiny drop of T-Cut on another sponge with a bit of water and go over the visor this can take a wile.

if you have any deep scratches rub them down with 3000 grit wet and dry sand paper and don't try to hand rub T-Cut or you will be left with micro scratches.

 

3/Go over the visor with a polishing head to remove any trace of T-Cut, then I use a glass hydrophobic coating not really necessary but I have some so why not

then a final clean with a micro fibre cloth, and try not to get finger prints all over it

 

just waiting for my drill to charge

 

Edited February 29, 2024 by Vic101

[Nick the wanderer]

About 3 or so years ago I got an advisory on my van at the MOT. The headlights are foggy. I really should do something about those.

[Simon Davey]

Toothpaste works well as a compound 

[RideWithStyles]

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Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[k3lv]

Depends on the visor ....I brought a plastic headlight restoration kit for this kind of thing .....turns out a new visor was £7 cheaper lol 

[husoi]

A new visor.

Not worth all the kerfuffle of spending 2hrs polishing when you will get a new one for £30  

[Tinkicker]

Polywatch Acrylic Polish.

[S-Westerly]

Replace visor once a year. I find scratches more of an issue in winter when more likely to be riding in dark. 

[Bender]

22 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

t cut is abit aggressive for clear stuff and easy to go too far with. 

compounds are better or as suggested previously tooth paste, soda based ones are even better for it, oh and its good on jewellery too.

if you use a detailers kit is wise to as it actively lifts and picks out imperfections off the visor in the first place...

You can start with much harsher than t cut, as long as you work your way down to brasso it's fine.

 

I spent many an unhappy hour polishing stick men and knobs out of acrylic windows, usually drawn with the nearest pointy stone.

[RideWithStyles]

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Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[curlylegend]

1 hour ago, Bender said:

I spent many an unhappy hour polishing stick men and knobs out of acrylic windows, usually drawn with the nearest pointy stone.

Was this before you discovered the joys of Motorcycling ?

[RideWithStyles]

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Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[Capt Sisko]

I don't. I buy a new visor!

 

Seriously, the visor on my Neotech II had one deep vertical scratch on it right in the view line of my right eye. Can't remember when it happened, some time last summer and it was almost invisible during the day. At night I could sort of look around it and otherwise the visor looked okay (having done the best part of 10k miles sitting behind the enormous screen of a R1250RT so it's subject to far less wear than it would on a naked bike), so I put up with it. Then a couple of months after the hour changed last year I knew I was going to do 450mile round trip, with the return leg almost entirely in the dark. I bit the bullet and bought a new visor & pinlock. Yee gods, what a difference.

 

Honestly, I thought that one big scratch aside the visor was in pretty good condition but heck, the difference was amazing. If you just ride in the daylight, yes you can get away with a lot, but for the longer dark winter months, the cost of a new one really is worth it?

Edited March 4, 2024 by Capt Sisko

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Tinkicker said:

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[Bender]

1 hour ago, curlylegend said:

Was this before you discovered the joys of Motorcycling ?

Just part of the job I did, it wasn't all bad, I was paid for it

[Tinkicker]

8 hours ago, Vic101 said:

I have an interest in this tell me more please

 

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