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| Subject: | Plexiglass Scratch Repair... |
Matt,
What happened to your RV-4 project? Finished, flown, sold?
Brian Vickers
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rv4-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-rv4-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dralle
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:22 PM
Subject: RV4-List: Plexiglass Scratch Repair...
Dear Listers,
During the fitting of the Plexiglass canopy on my RV-8, I managed to put
some pretty disheartening scratches in the windscreen section. You can see
from the pictures that they looked pretty bad. A call to Van's revealed
that a replacement canopy would be $640 + $250 shipping to California! Ack.
So what to do... A bit of surfing and I found this "Scratch Off" windshield
repair kit for $35 on the Aircraft Spruce web site:
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/scratchoff.php
Frankly, it just seemed too good to be true. Nothing for $35 could be that
"magic" I thought, but what did I have to lose at this point....
Well, the kit arrived yesterday and I decided to give it a try tonight. In
a word: WOW! In about 2 hours the windscreen looked as good as new - no
kidding - AS GOOD AS NEW! The pictures really don't do the repair justice.
It looks better in person.
There are basically two sponges in the kit with four decreasingly porous
pastes. You just put some of the first paste on the sponge and buff it in
with a drill at 1200 RPM or less. Then you wash everything down good
including the sponge and windshield with warm water. Then you use the next
finer paste and repeat the process. Etc, etc, until you've used the 4th
paste that is kind of like car wax.
Frankly, the scratches were gone after the first application of paste - I
started at #2 based on the instructions and the "observed severity" of the
scratch depth.
So, the bottom line is, if you've got scuffs or mild scratches in your
Plexiglass buy this repair kit. It works!
Matt Dralle
RV-8 #82880
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