Scratches in saftey glasses lens

[hunter46spring]

I have a pair of highend clear shooting glasses that I have had for over 15 years. They have a small scuff mark on the inside of the lens where the temple tip hits the lens. Does anyone have a remedy for this. I have seen the TVinfomercilas of some sort of liquid and have also hear of a paste that you buff the mark out with. Im just looking to see if anyone has had any sucess with these
-Hunter

 

[daddysuperfly]

i've heard of some people using toothpaste to remove small scratches from lenses. How deep is the scratch?

 

[Shark_Cage]

Most likely your out of luck. Try a grease pencil and rub it on the scratches and buff it. That's what optical shops use to hide polishing scratches. Any type of polishing or a polymer filler will look pretty bad. Its also not a good idea to play with the thickness of a safety lens. Go to an optical shop and see if they will replace the lenses.

 

[hunter46spring]

i've heard of some people using toothpaste to remove small scratches from lenses. How deep is the scratch?

I forgot to mention The lenses are "poly something or other" not glass. The scratch is really just a scuff or abrasion mark and is not deep at all.

 

[BossHarley]

I tried the lense doctor liquid stuff and it worked, not a good as new. If it was directly in my line of sight with my dominant eye, I would probably try something else or replace the lenses.

 

[MA_Shooter]

A very mild polishing liquid might work...such as Simichrome. I have also used toothpaste to remove minor scratches from plastic. I would test the compound on a pair of cheap safety glasses first to make sure it doesn't make the scuff worse. Auto part stores also sell very mild abrasives for removing scratches, this could work too but don't rub too hard or long (move the rag in a figure 8 motion). Another option is to use baking soda prepared in a thick paste.

-MS

 

[Shark_Cage]

+1 on trying it on something else. If you can feel the abrasive its too rough. The optical labs use a titanium oxide slurry to polish the lens. Good luck.

 

[MassMark]

I used some lens scratch remover I bought at Wal-Mart. Not sure who makes it, but it looks like a big tweezer with a pad on each side. Worked like a charm, (though not on deep scratches)...

 

[one-eyed Jack]

Har Har. I only need to clean one side of my glasses. Sorry for you guys. Jack.

 

[MassMark]

Har Har. I only need to clean one side of my glasses. Sorry for you guys. Jack.

LOL! Glad the one eye you have left is still working! Glad the surgery went well Jack!

 

[one-eyed Jack]

LOL! Glad the one eye you have left is still working! Glad the surgery went well Jack!

Thank you. Jack.

 

[Atlas]

There are plastic polishes by 3M, Mothers and I'm sure others, made for polishing headlight lenses that may work.

 

[LT1MCSS]

Get a good plastic polish. If its not deep it should work.

 

[KMM696]

I've had good results with the Novus plastic polish kit. Scratches on helmet visors, mostly.

 

[groundscrapers]

There is another polish jewelers use to polish watch faces. I would imagine if you search for jewelers watch polish you could find something that would work.