Polishing out lenses

pishta said

say NO top paper towels! They have wood pulp still in them and they can scratch, ask any eyeglass wearer. you know what works? virgin white Coffee filters! Same stuff as lens tissue. I have a VOM that has a chemical fogged lens and also a scratch in my stereo window Id like to clean.

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I agree to a point however the 3600, 4000, and 6000 is actually a bit harsher than a paper towel. I only used it after the 3600 to wipe off the lens to clean it enough to inspect to see if i needed to sand more to remove the rest of the scratches, or if i sanded deep enough. Your really only talking a few thousandths of an inch. After your final 6000, the lens is almost going to have a polish to it already. The micro-glaze ,and soft cloth in the kit will make the lenses look like new. Incidentally i didnt have that cloth anymore, so i used dampened paper towel with the microglaze, and encountered no scratches, or if there were any they were so small and the red plastic hides em well enough that they cannot be seen without a magnifying glass.

I have a vintage Onkyo TX-80 tuner amplifier i bought new in 1987, along with some other rack system components. Going to mount it all in the shop. Display has a scratch in it, i'm going to polish that one out too.